In Xenopus egg extracts, DNA replication initiates preferentially at or near asymmetric AT sequences

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 5265-5274

  Stanojcic, Slavica ^a   Lemaitre, Jean Marc ^a,b   Brodolin, Konstantin ^a   Danis, Etienne ^a   Mechali, Marcel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNOMIQUE FONCTIONNELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DNA; THYMINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; EGG; EPIGENETICS; EXTRACT; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPERM; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL EXTRACTS; CHROMATIN; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; OVUM; PROTEIN BINDING; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS;

EID: 50249154897     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00181-08     Document Type: Article

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