Chromatin organization - The 30nm fiber

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 318, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1448-1455

  Grigoryev, Sergei A ^a   Woodcock, Christopher L ^b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Chromatin fiber; Chromosome; Histone; Nucleosome; Nucleus

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; FIBER; HUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONFORMATION; DNA PACKAGING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; DNA PACKAGING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 84861956987     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: 10902422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2012.02.014     Document Type: Review

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