Nucleosomes: A solution to a crowded intracellular environment?

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 379-385

  Minsky, Abraham ^c   Ghirlando, Rodolfo ^a,c   Reich, Ziv ^b,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DNA CONFORMATION; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031558565     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1997.0525     Document Type: Article

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