New insight into the mitotic chromosome structure: Irregular folding of nucleosome fibers without 30-nm chromatin structure

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2010, Pages 439-444

  Maeshima, K ^a,b   Hihara, S ^a,b   Takata, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CATION; CONDENSIN; DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); GENOMIC DNA; HISTONE; HISTONE H1; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; LYSINE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; POLYMER;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CELL INTERACTION; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; DNA REPLICATION; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; GENE CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERPHASE; MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; XENOPUS;

ARTIFACTS; DNA; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTERPHASE; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; NUCLEOSOMES;

EID: 80052417280     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2010.75.034     Document Type: Article

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