Geometrical, conformational and topological restraints in regular nucleosome compaction in chromatin

Biophysical Chemistry

Volumn 148, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 56-67

  Scipioni, Anita ^a   Turchetti, Giulia ^a   Morosetti, Stefano ^a   De Santis, Pasquale ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conformational equivalence; Nucleosome packing in chromatin; Topological conditions; Torsional energy of linkers

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

DNA; HISTONES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 77951978209     PISSN: 03014622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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