Toward a unified physical model of nucleosome patterns flanking transcription start sites

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 5719-5724

  Möbius, Wolfram ^a   Osberg, Brendan ^b   Tsankov, Alexander M ^c   Rando, Oliver J ^d   Gerland, Ulrich ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin structure; Nucleosome maps; Quantitative biology

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CELL RESPIRATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR SIZE; NUCLEOSOME; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

BIOPHYSICS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOSOMES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; YEASTS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84875873326     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214048110     Document Type: Article

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