Chromatin Higher-order Structure and Dynamics
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Chromatin higher-order structure and dynamics.
The primary role of the nucleus as an information storage, retrieval, and replication site requires the physical organization and compaction of meters of DNA. Although it has been clear for many years that nucleosomes constitute the first level of chromatin compaction, this contributes a relatively small fraction of the condensation needed to fit the typical genome into an interphase nucleus or...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1943-0264
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a000596