DNA methylation-dependent chromatin fiber compaction in vivo and in vitro: Requirement for linker histone

FASEB Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2001, Pages 2631-2641

  Karymov, M A ^a   Tomschik, M ^a   Leuba, S H ^a   Caiafa, P ^a   Zlatanova, J ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Chromatin fibers; Histone H1

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHROMATIN; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; HISTONES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035204816     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.01-0345com     Document Type: Article

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