Pre-replication complex proteins assemble at regions of low nucleosome occupancy within the Chinese hamster dihydrofolate reductase initiation zone

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3141-3155

  Lubelsky, Yoav ^a,f   Sasaki, Takayo ^a   Kuipers, Marjorie A ^a   Lucas, Isabelle ^b   Le Beau, Michelle M ^b   Carignon, Sandra ^c,d,e   Debatisse, Michelle ^c,d,e   Prinz, Joseph A ^f   Dennis, Jonathan H ^a   Gilbert, David M ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e Institut Curie   (France)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOTINYLATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BIOTINYLATION; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; CHO CELLS; CHROMATIN; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; G1 PHASE; NUCLEOSOMES; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE;

CRICETULUS GRISEUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79955642432     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1276     Document Type: Article

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