Sometimes one just isn't enough: Do vertebrates contain an H2A.Z hyper-variant?

Journal of Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mehta, Monika ^a   Kim, Hyun Soo ^a   Keogh, Michael Christopher ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HISTONE H2AZ; HISTONE;

ALLELE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EUCHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SHORT SURVEY; SUMOYLATION; VERTEBRATE; X CHROMOSOME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTONES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 76749158455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14754924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/jbiol214     Document Type: Short Survey

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