Crystal structure of the nucleosome core particle at 2.8 Å resolution

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6648, 1997, Pages 251-260

  Luger, Karolin ^a   Mäder, Armin W ^a   Richmond, Robin K ^a   Sargent, David F ^a   Richmond, Timothy J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE COMPOSITION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 1842411320     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38444     Document Type: Article

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