Centromere identity: A challenge to be faced

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 284, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 75-94

  Mehta, Gunjan D ^a   Agarwal, Meenakshi P ^a   Ghosh, Santanu Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

CENP A; Centromere; Chromosome; Epigenetics; Histone modification

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY FACTOR 1; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; AUTOANTIGEN; HISTONE; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SURVIVAL; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CYTOKINESIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; NEOCENTROMERE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATIN; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

AUTOANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EUKARYOTA; GENETIC LOCI; HISTONES; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES;

EID: 77955290513     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-010-0553-4     Document Type: Review

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