Telomeric nucleosomes: Forgotten players at chromosome ends

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3553-3563

  Pisano, S ^a,b   Galati, A ^a   Cacchione, S ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Nucleosome; Telomere; Telomere epigenetics; Telomere structure; Telomeric chromatin

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NAKED DNA; NUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STOICHIOMETRY; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE;

EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOSOMES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 56549089924     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-008-8307-8     Document Type: Review

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