Depletion effects massively change chromatin properties and influence genome folding

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2146-2153

  Diesinger, Philipp M ^a   Heermann, Dieter W ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 70449086211     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.06.057     Document Type: Article

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