What controls nucleosome positions?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 335-343

  Segal, Eran ^a   Widom, Jonathan ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 68349125112     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2009.06.002     Document Type: Review

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