Base pair stacking in nucleosome DNA and bendability sequence pattern

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 263, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 337-339

  Trifonov, Edward N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Chromatin code; DNA deformation; DNA minor grooves; Nucleosome DNA sequence; Nucleosome positioning

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME; DNA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; FUNGAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; YEAST;

BASE PAIRING; DNA; NUCLEOSOMES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 76749140862     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.11.020     Document Type: Article

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