Genome organization by vertebrate sperm nuclear basic proteins (SNBPs)

Epigenetics and Human Health

Volumn 2148, Issue , 2011, Pages 213-230

  Ausió, Juan ^a   Brewer, Laurence R ^b   Frehlick, Lindsay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Histone; Protamine; Transition protein

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTAMINE; SPERM NUCLEAR BASIC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; CAG REPEAT; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA BINDING; DNA DAMAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SPERMATOGENESIS; VERTEBRATE;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866990750     PISSN: 21912262     EISSN: 21912270     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14773-9_9     Document Type: Article

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