Nucleosome positioning in yeasts: methods, maps, and mechanisms

Chromosoma

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 131-151

  Lieleg, Corinna ^a   Krietenstein, Nils ^a   Walker, Maria ^a   Korber, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Nucleosome position; Nucleosome remodeling; Yeast

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; HYDROXYL GROUP; FUNGAL DNA; NUCLEOSOME;

CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA BINDING; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE MAPPING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; YEAST; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, FUNGAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; NUCLEOSOMES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84929961336     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-014-0501-x     Document Type: Review

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