Nucleosome dynamics. III. Histone tail-dependent fluctuation of nucleosomes between open and closed DNA conformations. Implications for chromatin dynamics and the linking number paradox. A relaxation study of mononucleosomes on DNA minicircles

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1101-1119

  De Lucia, Filomena ^a,b   Alilat, Mohamed ^a   Sivolob, Andrei ^a,c   Prunell, Ariel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Chromatin dynamics; DNA flexibility; DNA minicircles; Nucleosome two and three state models; Topoisomerase relaxation

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; HISTONE; PHOSPHATE;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DNA CONFORMATION; DYNAMICS; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION;

EID: 0033593241     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2382     Document Type: Article

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