Multiscale modeling of nucleosome dynamics

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1457-1470

  Sharma, Shantanu ^a   Ding, Feng ^a   Dokholyan, Nikolay V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DNA CONFORMATION; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

EID: 33847770470     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.094805     Document Type: Article

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