The physics behind the larger scale organization of DNA in eukaryotes

Physical Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Emanuel, Marc ^a   Radja, Nima Hamedani ^a   Henriksson, Andreas ^a   Schiessel, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTROPY; EUKARYOTE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE; CHROMATIN; DNA; ELASTICITY; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 68349128355     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/6/2/025008     Document Type: Article

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