Choreography for nucleosomes: The conformational freedom of the nucleosomal filament and its limitations

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Engelhardt, Mogens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA BINDING; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA HELIX; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ROTATION;

EUKARYOTA;

DNA; HISTONE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; HISTONES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; ROTATION;

EID: 34548745169     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm560     Document Type: Article

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