Assembly of nucleosomal arrays from recombinant core histones and nucleosome positioning DNA

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 79, 2013, Pages

  Rogge, Ryan A ^a   Kalashnikova, Anna A ^a   Muthurajan, Uma M ^a   Porter Goff, Mary E ^a   Luger, Karolin ^a   Hansen, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical Ultracentrifugation; Atomic Force (AFM); Biochemistry; Cellular biology; Chromatin; Chromosome structures; Histone; Histones; Issue 79; Microscopy; Nucleosomal array; Nucleosome; Nucleosomes; Sedimentation velocity

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; DNA; HISTONE; NUCLEOSOME;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; NUCLEOSOME; PROCEDURES; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

CHROMATIN; DNA; HISTONES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NUCLEOSOMES; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 85052429870     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50354     Document Type: Article

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