Nucleosome repeat lengths and columnar chromatin structure

Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1156-1158

  Trifonov, Edward N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chromatin digestion; DNA digestion ladder; MNase; Nucleosome DNA; Sequence periodicity

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; UNCLASSIFIED ENZYME; CHROMATIN; DNA; NUCLEOSOME;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR SIZE; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOSOME REPEAT LENGTH; PERIODICITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; GENETICS;

CHROMATIN; DNA; NUCLEOSOMES;

EID: 84984985537     PISSN: 07391102     EISSN: 15380254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2015.1075158     Document Type: Article

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