Chromatin dynamics during spermiogenesis

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1839, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 155-168

  Rathke, Christina ^a   Baarends, Willy M ^b   Awe, Stephan ^a   Renkawitz Pohl, Renate ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chromatin remodeling; Histone modification; Histone variant; Protamine; Spermiogenesis; Transition protein

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; HISTONE; HISTONE H1; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; PROTAMINE; PROTEASOME;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DROSOPHILA; FERTILIZATION; GERM CELL; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REVIEW; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS;

CHROMATIN REMODELING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HISTONE VARIANT; PROTAMINE; SPERMIOGENESIS; TRANSITION PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA BREAKS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84896698948     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2013.08.004     Document Type: Review

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