Nucleosomes facilitate their own invasion

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 763-769

  Li, Gu ^a   Widom, Jonathan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; HISTONE; LEXA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; ENERGY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HISTONES; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOSOMES; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 3542998667     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb801     Document Type: Article

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