Current progress on structural studies of nucleosomes containing histone H3 variants

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-115

  Kurumizaka, Hitoshi ^a,c   Horikoshi, Naoki ^a,c   Tachiwana, Hiroaki ^a,c   Kagawa, Wataru ^b,c  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CELL DNA; CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3.1; HISTONE H3.2; HISTONE H3.3; HISTONE H3.5; HISTONE H3.X; HISTONE H3.Y; HISTONE H3T; HISTONE H4; PROTEIN VARIANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA; HISTONES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 84873526311     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.10.009     Document Type: Review

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