Beyond the code: The mechanical properties of DNA as they relate to mitosis

Chromosoma

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 103-110

  Bloom, Kerry S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

BACTERIAL CELL; CELL CYCLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPRESSION; DNA STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; FORCE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TENSION; YEAST CELL; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA; ENTROPY; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 41149112015     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-007-0138-0     Document Type: Short Survey

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