Scanning force microscopy reveals ellipsoid shape of chicken erythrocyte nucleosomes

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 2222-2226

  Fritzsche, Wolfgang ^a   Henderson, Eric ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ERYTHROCYTE; GEOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0029791094     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79423-7     Document Type: Article

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