Large-scale chromatin de-compaction induced by low light is not accompanied by nucleosomal displacement

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  van Zanten, Martijn ^a,b   Tessadori, Federico ^c,d   Bossen, Laurens ^c   Peeters, Anton J M ^a   Fransz, Paul ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Chromatin; MNase I; Nucleosomes

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; LIGHT; METABOLISM; NUCLEOSOME; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN; LIGHT; NUCLEOSOMES;

EID: 79551671190     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.5.12.14039     Document Type: Article

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