Polymer reptation and nucleosome repositioning

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 4414-4417

  Schiessel, H ^a,c   Widom, J ^b   Bruinsma, R F ^a,d   Gelbart, W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEINS; RNA; X RAY ANALYSIS;

POLYMER DYNAMICS;

POLYMERS;

DNA; DNA SUPERCOILING; HISTONE; NUCLEOSOME; PLANT DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; NUCLEOSOME; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA, PLANT; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; HISTONES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES;

EID: 0035820523     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4414     Document Type: Article

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