Columnar structure of SV40 minichromosome

AIMS Biophysics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 274-283

  Trifonov, Edward N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Nucleosome; Nucleosome mapping; Nucleosome sliding; Rotational positioning; Sequence periodicity; Stacked nucleosomes; YR dinucleotides; YR tracks

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018200002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23779098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/biophy.2015.3.274     Document Type: Article

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