Role of DNA sequence in nucleosome stability and dynamics

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 269-324

  Widom, J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE;

BINDING AFFINITY; CELL TRANSPORT; DNA PACKAGING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; ENZYME MECHANISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035704707     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033583501003699     Document Type: Review

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