Protamine 2 precursors and processing

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 778-785

  De Mateo, Sara ^a   Ramos, Liliana ^b   De Boer, Peter ^b   Meistrich, Marvin ^c   Oliva, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin condensation; Density gradient; Histones; Precursor protamine 2; Protamines; Sperm

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957990563     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986611795713998     Document Type: Article

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