Chicken erythrocyte nucleosomes have a defined orientation along the linker DNA - A scanning force microscopy study

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Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 42-47

  Fritzsche, Wolfgang ^a,b   Henderson, Eric ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Chromatin; DNA protein complex; Image processing; Nucleosomal chain

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ERYTHROCYTE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0031400023     PISSN: 01610457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sca.4950190106     Document Type: Article

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