Thermodynamic pathways to genome spatial organization in the cell nucleus

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2168-2177

  Nicodemi, Mario ^a,b   Prisco, Antonella ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; THERMODYNAMICS; UPREGULATION; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EUKARYOTA;

BINDING SITES; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; GENOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 66149104488     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2008.12.3919     Document Type: Article

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