Predicting nucleosome-positioning signals. Comment on "Cracking the chromatin code: Precise rule of nucleosome positioning" by E.N. Trifonov

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-61

  Bina, Minou ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOTE; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 79952188815     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2011.01.012     Document Type: Note

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