Electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy studies of chromatin and metaphase chromosome structure

Micron

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 733-750

  Daban, Joan Ramon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Chromatin fibers; Chromatin higher order structure; Chromatin plates; Electron microscopy; Metaphase chromosome structure

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT LAYERS; AFM IMAGING; AQUEOUS MEDIA; BAND SPLITTING; CELL TYPES; CHROMATIN FIBERS; CHROMATIN PLATES; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPACT FIBERS; CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION; FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; FRICTION FORCE MEASUREMENT; GENOMIC DNA; HELICAL PITCH; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH DENSITY; HIGHER-ORDER STRUCTURE; IONIC CONDITIONS; LAYER THICKNESS; LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASIS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MAIN COMPONENT; METAPHASE CHROMOSOMES; MITOTIC CELLS; MULTI-LAYERED; NUCLEOSOME ARRAYS; NUCLEOSOME CORE PARTICLES; NUCLEOSOMES; PLANAR GEOMETRIES; PLATE-LIKE STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE-BASED; TEM IMAGES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NETWORKS;

AGGLOMERATION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DEIONIZED WATER; DNA; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRONS; FIBERS; GEOMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MEDICAL IMAGING; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CHROMOSOMES;

ANIMAL; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; METAPHASE; REVIEW; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURES; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMANS; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR;

SOLENOIDEA;

EID: 80051582296     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2011.05.002     Document Type: Review

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