The nature of DNA sequence preferences for nucleosome positioning. Comment on 'Cracking the chromatin code: Precise rule of nucleosome positioning' by Trifonov

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-55

  Travers, Andrew ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NOTE; NUCLEOSOME; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 79952188028     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2011.01.010     Document Type: Note

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