Nucleosome dynamics. II. High flexibility of nucleosome entering and exiting DNAs to positive crossing. An ethidium bromide fluorescence study of mononucleosomes on DNA minicircles

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1081-1099

  Sivolob, Andrei ^a,c   De Lucia, Filomena ^a,d   Révet, Bernard ^b   Prunell, Ariel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^c TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

DNA flexibility; DNA minicircles; Electron microscopy of nucleosomes; Ethidium bromide binding isotherms; Histone tails

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; DNA; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; DNA SUPERCOILING; DYNAMICS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TITRIMETRY;

EID: 0033593369     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2380     Document Type: Article

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