Chemical and biological tools for the preparation of modified histone proteins

Topics in Current Chemistry

Volumn 363, Issue , 2015, Pages 193-226

  Howard, Cecil J ^a   Yu, Ruixuan R ^a   Gardner, Miranda L ^a   Shimko, John C ^a   Ottesen, Jennifer J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical ligation; Chromatin; Expanded genetic code; Histones; Nucleosomes; Posttranslational modifications; Protein chemistry

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; HISTONE;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SYNTHESIS;

CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, SYNTHETIC; CHROMATIN; EUKARYOTA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84929628382     PISSN: 03401022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/128_2015_629     Document Type: Article

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