The sequentiallity of nucleosomes in the 30 nm chromatin fibre

FEBS Journal

Volumn 275, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 3761-3771

  Staynov, Dontcho Z ^a   Proykova, Yana G ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

30 nm fibre; Chromatin structure; Nucleosome

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; ERYTHROCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMATIN; NUCLEOSOMES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 47249151507     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06522.x     Document Type: Article

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