Salt-dependent compaction of di- and trinucleosomes studied by small- angle neutron scattering

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 584-594

  Hammermann, Markus ^a   Tóth, Katalin ^a   Rodemer, Claus ^a   Waldeck, Waldemar ^a   May, Roland P ^b   Langowski, Jörg ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY; SIMULATION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; LYTECHINUS VARIEGATUS;

EID: 0342323657     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(00)76318-1     Document Type: Article

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