An Advanced Coarse-Grained Nucleosome Core Particle Model for Computer Simulations of Nucleosome-Nucleosome Interactions under Varying Ionic Conditions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Fan, Yanping ^a   Korolev, Nikolay ^a   Lyubartsev, Alexander P ^b   Nordenskiöld, Lars ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; MAGNESIUM ION; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM ION;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL INTERACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DNA HISTONE INTERACTION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ION CURRENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOSOME CORE PARTICLE; NUCLEOSOME CORE PARTICLE MODEL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BINDING SITES; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES;

EID: 84873884167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054228     Document Type: Article

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