Evidence for heteromorphic chromatin fibers from analysis of nucleosome interactions

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

Volumn 106, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 13317-13322

  Grigoryev, Sergei A ^a   Arya, Gaurav ^b   Correll, Sarah ^a   Woodcock, Christopher L ^c   Schlick, Tamar ^d  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin structure; Electron microscopy; Linker histone; Mesoscopic modeling; Monte carlo simulations

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; DIVALENT CATION; HISTONE; LINK PROTEIN; MONOVALENT CATION;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA MICROARRAY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CATIONS; CHICKENS; HISTONES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES;

SOLENOIDEA;

EID: 69449098842     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903280106     Document Type: Article

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