A simple biophysical model emulates budding yeast chromosome condensation

eLife

Volumn 2015, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1-22

  Cheng, Tammy M K ^a   Heeger, Sebastian ^a   Chaleil, Raphaël A G ^a   Matthews, Nik ^a   Stewart, Aengus ^a   Wright, Jon ^b   Lim, Carmay ^c   Bates, Paul A ^a   Uhlmann, Frank ^a  

^a THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b GENOMICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOPHYSICS; CELL BUDDING; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; ENTROPY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INTERPHASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; YEAST; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MARKOV CHAIN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERPHASE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84929149353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.05565     Document Type: Article

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