How the chromatin fiber deals with topological constraints
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How does the chromatin fiber deal with topological constraints?
In the nuclei of eukaryotic cells, DNA is packaged through several levels of compaction in an orderly retrievable way that enables the correct regulation of gene expression. The functional dynamics of this assembly involves the unwinding of the so-called 30 nm chromatin fiber and accordingly imposes strong topological constraints. We present a general method for computing both the twist and the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.71.031910