Touch, act and go: Landing and operating on nucleosomes

EMBO Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 376-388

  Speranzini, Valentina ^a   Pilotto, Simona ^a   Sixma, Titia K ^b   Mattevi, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

chromatin; epigenetics; molecular recognition; nucleosome; structural biology

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEOSOME;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CHROMATIN; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE PROBE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEOSOMES;

EID: 84958643027     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embj.201593377     Document Type: Review

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