To the 30-nm chromatin fiber and beyond

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1677, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 12-23

  Adkins, Nicholas L ^a   Watts, Meagan ^a   Georgel, Philippe T ^a  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Chromatin associated proteins; Higher order structure; Linker DNA; Nucleosome

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; DNA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP N PROTEIN; HISTONE; ISOPROTEIN; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ASSOCIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATION; DOCUMENTATION; EUCHROMATIN; FIBER; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HISTONES; HMGB PROTEINS; HMGN PROTEINS; HUMANS; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 1542358197     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2003.09.013     Document Type: Review

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