The effect of DNA supercoiling on nucleosome structure and stability

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Elbel, Tabea ^a   Langowski, Jörg ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

atomic force spectroscopy; fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; histone; supercoiled DNA

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ATOMIC FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; HISTONE; NEGATIVE SUPERCOILING; NUCLEOSOME OPENING; NUCLEOSOME STRUCTURE; SUPERCOILED DNA; SUPERHELICAL DENSITY;

DNA;

DNA SUPERCOILING; FLUORESCENT DYE; NUCLEOSOME;

CHEMISTRY; DNA SUPERCOILING; GENETICS; NUCLEOSOME; PLASMID;

DNA, SUPERHELICAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; NUCLEOSOMES; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84921672969     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/27/6/064105     Document Type: Article

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