Revisiting higher-order and large-scale chromatin organization

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 359-366

  Bian, Qian ^a,b   Belmont, Andrew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL POPULATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; GENE LOCUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; IONIC STRENGTH; MOLECULAR DOCKING; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; X CHROMOSOME;

CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; GENOME; HUMANS; INTERPHASE;

EID: 84861960359     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2012.03.003     Document Type: Review

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