Nucleosome repeat length and linker histone stoichiometry determine chromatin fiber structure

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 8872-8877

  Routh, Andrew ^a   Sandin, Sara ^a   Rhodes, Daniela ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

30 nm fiber; Electron microscopy; Heterochromatin; Nucleosome array reconstitution; Sedimentation velocity analysis

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBER; HETEROCHROMATIN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STOICHIOMETRY; ANIMAL; BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PROTEIN BINDING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; CHICKENS; HISTONES; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN BINDING; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 48249103503     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802336105     Document Type: Article

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