Histone variants at the transcription start-site

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 199-209

  Soboleva, Tatiana A ^a   Nekrasov, Maxim ^a   Ryan, Daniel P ^a   Tremethick, David J ^a  

^a Biology and Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Histone variants; Nucleosome mapping; Transcription start site; Transcriptional regulation; Unstable nucleosomes

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2AZ; HISTONE; ISOPROTEIN; NUCLEOSOME;

DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION;

EUKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84899916209     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2014.03.002     Document Type: Review

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