Counting nucleosomes in living cells with a combination of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and confocal imaging

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 334, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 229-240

  Weidemann, Thomas ^a,b   Wachsmuth, Malte ^a,c   Knoch, Tobias A ^a,c   Müller, Gabriele ^a   Waldeck, Waldemar ^a   Langowski, Jörg ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b Brunnerstra e 59   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Confocal microscopy; Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; Histone metabolism; Nuclear architecture

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CALIBRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DENSITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERPHASE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULE; NUCLEOSOME; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCALE UP;

EID: 0242352409     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.08.063     Document Type: Article

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