Rigid assembly and Monte Carlo models of stable and unstable chromatin structures: The effect of nucleosomal spacing

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Volumn 125, Issue 3-6, 2010, Pages 217-231

  Aumann, Frank ^a   Sühnel, Jürgen ^b   Langowski, Jörg ^a   Diekmann, Stephan ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin fiber; Elasticity; Monte Carlo simulation; Quantization; Repeat length; Rigid assembly model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949273982     PISSN: 1432881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00214-009-0561-9     Document Type: Article

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