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The Role of Histone H1 in Chromatin Condensation and Transcriptional Repression

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Structural Biology and Functional Genomics

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Linker histones are a major determinant of chromatin condensation. Wediscuss here the nature and position of the interaction of the globular domain of histone H5 with the core nucleosome and the relevance of this positioning to chromatin structure and the regulation of transcription of the Xenopus borealis 5S rRNA genes

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  1. Memmo Buttinelli

    Present address: Fondazione ‘Istituto Pasteur - Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti’, c/o Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Piazzale le Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Roma, Italy

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    Memmo Buttinelli, Gianna Panetta, Daniela Rhodes & Andrew Travers

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Buttinelli, M., Panetta, G., Rhodes, D., Travers, A. (1999). The Role of Histone H1 in Chromatin Condensation and Transcriptional Repression. In: Bradbury, E.M., Pongor, S. (eds) Structural Biology and Functional Genomics. NATO Science Series, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4631-9_12

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