A molecular model for the role of SYCP3 in meiotic chromosome organisation

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Syrjänen, Johanna Liinamaria ^a   Pellegrini, Luca ^a   Davies, Owen Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; SYCP3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 84905013794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02963.001     Document Type: Article

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