Physicochemical analysis of electrostatic foundation for DNA-protein interactions in chromatin transformations

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 95, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 23-49

  Korolev, Nikolay ^a   Vorontsova, Olga V ^b   Nordenskiöld, Lars ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epigenetic regulation; Histone chaperones; Histone DNA interactions; Nucleosome assembly; Polyelectrolyte complexes

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; DNA; HISTONE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; ELECTRICITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOSOME; PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

CHROMATIN; DNA; ELECTROSTATICS; HISTONES; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEOSOMES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34848842846     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2006.11.003     Document Type: Review

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