Stopped-flow fluorescence resonance energy transfer for analysis of nucleosome dynamics

Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 296-303

  Tims, Hannah S ^a   Widom, Jonathan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Conformational dynamics; Cy dye labeling; DNA; FRET; Histones; Kinetics; LexA protein; Nucleosome reconstitution; Site exposure

Indexed keywords

DYE; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INSTRUMENTATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; HISTONES; KINETICS; NUCLEOSOMES; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33847035523     PISSN: 10462023     EISSN: 10959130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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