Nucleosomes and centromeric DNA packaging

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 50, 2013, Pages 19974-19975

  Heslop Harrison, J S ^a   Schwarzacher, Trude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; SATELLITE DNA;

CENTROMERE; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA HELIX; DNA PACKAGING; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 84890280738     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319945110     Document Type: Note

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