Germline-specific H1 variants: the “sexy” linker histones

2015/04/28 by Salvador Pérez-Montero, Albert Carbonell, Fernando Azorín +1 · 15 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biology #Cell biology #Chromatin #Chromatosome #Chromosomal and Genetic Variations #DNA #DNA methylation #Gene #Genetics #Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics #Histone #Histone H1 #Histone H2A #Histone code #Histone methylation #Histone octamer #Linker DNA #Nucleoprotein #Nucleosome #Plant Molecular Biology Research

paper · doi:10.1007/s00412-015-0517-x

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