Modeling a self-avoiding chromatin loop: Relation to the packing problem, action-at-a-distance, and nuclear context

Structure

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 197-204

  Bon, Michaël ^a   Marenduzzo, Davide ^b,c   Cook, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA POLYMERASE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 32044450311     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2005.10.016     Document Type: Article

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