Open and closed domains in the mouse genome are configured as 10-nm chromatin fibres

EMBO Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 992-996

  Fussner, Eden ^a,b   Strauss, Mike ^c   Djuric, Ugljesa ^a,b   Li, Ren ^a   Ahmed, Kashif ^a   Hart, Michael ^d   Ellis, James ^a,b   Bazett Jones, David P ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

chromatin fibre; electron tomography; nuclear organization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN FIBER; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA; ECHINODERMATA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; GENOME; HISTONES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ENERGY-FILTERING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84868690351     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.139     Document Type: Article

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