High-throughput sequencing reveals a simple model of nucleosome energetics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 49, 2010, Pages 20998-21003

  Locke, George ^a   Tolkunov, Denis ^a   Moqtaderi, Zarmik ^b   Struhl, Kevin ^b   Morozov, Alexandre V ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophysical models; Chromatin structure; Histone DNA interactions; Nucleosome positioning

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; DNA HISTONE INTERACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; ENERGY METABOLISM; HISTONES; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78650445679     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003838107     Document Type: Article

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