A new fractionation assay, based on the size of formaldehyde-crosslinked, mildly sheared chromatin, delineates the chromatin structure at promoter regions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Ishihara, Satoru ^a,b   Varma, Rajat ^a   Schwartz, Ronald H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; FORMALDEHYDE; INTERLEUKIN 2; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; FRACTIONATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INDUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 77954367690     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq203     Document Type: Article

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