Hydrophobicity of methylated DNA as a possible mechanism for gene silencing

Physical Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Kaur, Parminder ^a   Plochberger, Birgit ^b   Costa, Peter ^a   Cope, Stephanie M ^a   Vaiana, Sara M ^a   Lindsay, Stuart ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TELOMERASE; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROMOTER REGION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DNA; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TELOMERASE;

EID: 84871255668     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/9/6/065001     Document Type: Article

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