Nucleosome conformational flexibility and implications for chromatin dynamics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1820, 2004, Pages 1519-1547

  Sivolob, Andrei ^a   Prunell, Ariel ^b  

^a TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Conformational flexibility; DNA supercoiling; Nucleosome

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042621005     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1387     Document Type: Article

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