Putting CENP-A in its place

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 387-406

  Stellfox, Madison E ^a   Bailey, Aaron O ^a   Foltz, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CENP A; Centromere; Chromatin; Chromosome; Epigenetics; Nucleosome

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRICHOSTATIN A; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL VIABILITY; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UBIQUITINATION;

AUTOANTIGENS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; EPIGENOMICS; HISTONES; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; S PHASE;

EID: 84872327159     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-012-1048-8     Document Type: Review

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