Are liquid crystalline properties of nucleosomes involved in chromosome structure and dynamics?

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

Volumn 364, Issue 1847, 2006, Pages 2615-2633

  Livolant, Françoise ^a   Mangenot, Stéphanie ^a   Leforestier, Amélie ^a   Bertin, Aurélie ^a   De Frutos, Marta ^a   Raspaud, Eric ^a   Durand, Dominique ^b   Jackson, G ^c   Samulski, E T ^d   Matharu, A S ^e   Percec, V ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; DNA; Mesophase; Nucleosomes; Polyelectrolyte

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750499500     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1843     Document Type: Article

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