How the chromatin fiber deals with topological constraints

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Barbi, Maria ^a   Mozziconacci, Julien ^a   Victor, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN FIBERS; CODING SEQUENCES; GENETIC EXPRESSION; TWO-ANGLE MODEL;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CROSSLINKING; DNA; ELASTICITY; ENZYMES; GENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CELLS;

CHROMATIN; DNA; NUCLEOSOME;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; DNA PACKAGING; HUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DNA PACKAGING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 41349087453     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.031910     Document Type: Article

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