Comparative structural biology of the genome: Nano-scale imaging of single nucleus from different kingdoms reveals the common physicochemical property of chromatin with a 40 nm structural unit

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-40

  Kobori, Toshiro ^a,b   Kodama, Mami ^a   Hizume, Kohji ^a   Yoshimura, Shige H ^a   Ohtani, Toshio ^b   Takeyasu, Kunio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Chromatin fiber; Nuclear isolation; On substrate lysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS STRUCTURES; CHICKENS; CHROMATIN; ERYTHROCYTES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; YEASTS;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

BLOOD; CELL MEMBRANES; GENES; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES;

ATOMIC-FORCE-MICROSCOPY; CHROMATIN FIBERS; GENOME FUNCTIONS; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; NANO-SCALE IMAGING; NUCLEAR ISOLATION; ON-SUBSTRATE LYSE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY; STRUCTURAL UNIT;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 33646735917     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: 14779986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/dfi076     Document Type: Article

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