Human linker histones: Interplay between phosphorylation and O-β-GlcNAc to mediate chromatin structural modifications

Cell Division

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ahmad, Waqar ^a   Shabbiri, Khadija ^b   Nazar, Noreen ^b   Nazar, Shazia ^b   Qaiser, Saba ^b   Shabbir Mughal, Mirza A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^b GC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; HOMO SAPIENS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79960179866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17471028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-1028-6-15     Document Type: Article

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