Computer modeling demonstrates that electrostatic attraction of nucleosomal DNA is mediated by histone tails

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4305-4316

  Korolev, Nikolay ^a   Lyubartsev, Alexander P ^b   Nordenskiöld, Lars ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOSOME;

EID: 33744800781     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.080226     Document Type: Article

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