Computational modeling predicts the structure and dynamics of chromatin fiber

Structure

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 105-114

  Beard, Daniel A ^a   Schlick, Tamar ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

30 nm fiber; Brownian dynamics; Chromatin structure; Nucleosome core particle

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; COMPUTER MODEL; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRICITY; ERYTHROCYTE; GEOMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOSOME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THYMUS;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMATIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN FOLDING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; X-RAYS;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0035093560     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00572-X     Document Type: Article

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