Model of continuous and discontinuous chromatin compaction, resulting from position effect variegation

Biologisches Zentralblatt

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 16-23

  Balasov, M L ^a   Makunin, I V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

chromatin compaction; DNA protein binding; model; position effect variegation

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; HUMAN; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

EID: 0029944806     PISSN: 00063304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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