Liquid-like behavior of chromatin

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 37, Issue , 2016, Pages 36-45

  Maeshima, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Ide, Satoru ^a,b   Hibino, Kayo ^a,b   Sasai, Masaki ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; CHROMATIN; DNA;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; DNA REPLICATION; DYNAMICS; ENTROPY; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; CHEMISTRY; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS;

CHROMATIN; DNA; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84961357235     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2015.11.006     Document Type: Review

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