Irregular folding of nucleosomes in the cell. Comment on "Cracking the chromatin code: Precise rule of nucleosome positioning" by Edward N. Trifonov

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-52

  Takata, Hideaki ^a   Maeshima, Kazuhiro ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Chromosome; DNA; Genome; Irregular folding; Nucleosome; Repetitive DNA sequences

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NOTE; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN FOLDING; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 79952194553     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2011.01.005     Document Type: Note

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