The octamer is the major form of CENP-A nucleosomes at human centromeres

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 687-695

  Hasson, Dan ^a,b   Panchenko, Tanya ^b,c   Salimian, Kevan J ^b,c   Salman, Mishah U ^d   Sekulic, Nikolina ^b   Alonso, Alicia ^e   Warburton, Peter E ^a   Black, Ben E ^b,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Drexel University   (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; DNA; HISTONE H3;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; DNA BINDING; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

AUTOANTIGENS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84878931770     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2562     Document Type: Article

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