Histone variants: The tricksters of the chromatin world

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 8-14

  Volle, Catherine ^a   Dalal, Yamini ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H2AX; HISTONE H2AZ; CHROMATIN; DNA;

CELL AGING; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMATIN; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISEASE COURSE; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METHANOTHERMUS FERVIDUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AGING; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA; DNA REPAIR; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTONES; HUMANS;

EID: 84892993229     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2013.11.006     Document Type: Review

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