Recognition of methylated histones: New twists and variations

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 744-749

  Khorasanizadeh, Sepideh ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DNA; HISTONE; LYSINE; PLANT HOMEODOMAIN ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; PROTEIN WD40; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMODOMAIN; GENOME; HISTONE METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYSINE; METHYLATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 82955247642     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2011.10.001     Document Type: Review

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