Quantitative test of the barrier nucleosome model for statistical positioning of nucleosomes up- and downstream of transcription start sites

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Möbius, Wolfram ^a   Gerland, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL PHYSICS; TRANSCRIPTION; YEAST;

DOWN-STREAM; EUKARYOTIC GENOME; FREE REGION; NUCLEOSOME POSITIONS; NUCLEOSOMES; OSCILLATORY PATTERNS; PERIODIC PATTERN; QUANTITATIVE TESTS; REGULATORY PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION START SITE;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; ENTROPY; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OSCILLATION; PHYSICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 78049434489     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000891     Document Type: Article

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