The first thirty years of 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 64-66

  Zhurkin, Victor B ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

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

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; GENOME; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 79952190276     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2011.02.001     Document Type: Note

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