From meiosis to postmeiotic events: The secrets of histone disappearance

FEBS Journal

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 599-604

  Gaucher, Jonathan ^a   Reynoird, Nicolas ^a   Montellier, Emilie ^a   Boussouar, Fayçal ^a   Rousseaux, Sophie ^a   Khochbin, Saadi ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Acetylation; Chromatin; Epigenetics; Histone variants; Nucleosomes; Protamines; Protease; Sperm; Transition proteins

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; HISTONE; HISTONE H1; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; TRANSITION PROTEIN 1; TRANSITION PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA PACKAGING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTAMINES; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 75149186088     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07504.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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