Recent advances in single molecule studies of nucleosomes

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-87

  Killian, Jessica L ^a   Li, Ming ^b   Sheinin, Maxim Y ^a   Wang, Michelle D ^a,b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CHAPERONE; DNA; HISTONE; HISTONE H3; MOLECULAR MOTOR; NUCLEOSOMAL DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SCM3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CENTROMERIC NUCLEOSOME; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMATOSOME; DEVICES; DNA HISTONE INTERACTION; DNA UNZIPPING; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HISTONE ACETYLATION; MAGNET; MAGNETIC TWEEZER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOSOME DISASSEMBLY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA; HISTONES; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84857034648     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2011.11.003     Document Type: Review

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