Identification and characterization of genomic nucleosome-positioning sequences

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 807-817

  Widlund, Hans R ^a   Cao, Hui ^a   Simonsson, Stina ^b   Magnusson, Elisabet ^b   Simonsson, Tomas ^a   Nielsen, Peter E ^c   Kahn, Jason D ^d   Crothers, Donald M ^e   Kubista, Mikael ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centromeres; Chromatin; Nucleosome; Positioning; Stability

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0031564633     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.0916     Document Type: Article

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