A variable topology for the 30-nm chromatin fibre

EMBO Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1129-1134

  Wu, Chenyi ^a   Bassett, Andrew ^a   Travers, Andrew ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A2 PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B PROTEIN; HISTONE;

BASE PAIRING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA HELIX; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 36749101388     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7401115     Document Type: Review

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