Sequence motifs and free energies of selected natural and non-natural nucleosome positioning DNA sequences

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 213-229

  Thastrom A ^a,b   Lowary, P T ^a   Widlund, H R ^b   Cao, H ^b   Kubista, M ^b   Widom, J ^a,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affinity; Chromatin; Histone; Nucleosome; Positioning

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; GUANINE; HISTONE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HISTONE INTERACTION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; ENERGY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EUKARYOTA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0039837085     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2686     Document Type: Article

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