Compartmentalization of interphase chromosomes observed in simulation and experiment

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1053-1065

  Münkel, Christian ^a,b   Eils, Roland ^b   Dietzel, Steffen ^b   Zink, Daniele ^b   Mehring, Carsten ^a,b   Wedemann, Gero ^a,b   Cremer, Thomas ^b   Langowski, Jörg ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Higher order chromatin structure; Interphase chromosomes; Monte Carlo; Nuclear organization; Polymers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MARKER; INTERPHASE; LASER MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033593366     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2361     Document Type: Article

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