Nucleosome positioning: Bringing order to the eukaryotic genome

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 250-256

  Iyer, Vishwanath R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Epigenetic; Genome packaging; Nucleosome; Remodeling

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; PROTEIN SWI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF;

ARABIDOPSIS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME; CUNNINGHAMELLA ELEGANS; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GENOMICS; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENOME; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84860466555     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2012.02.004     Document Type: Review

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