Nucleosome positioning in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 301-320

  Jansen, An ^a,b   Verstrepen, Kevin J ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; PROTEIN SWI; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EUKARYOTA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; NUCLEOSOMES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEASTS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 79958077283     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: 10985557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00046-10     Document Type: Review

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