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Nucleosomes

Known as: DNA protein particle, Nucleosome, Nucleosomes [Chemical/Ingredient] 
A DNA packaging complex comprised of approximately 200 base pairs of DNA wound around a protein core, which is formed by an octomer of histones. The… 
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Broader (4)

Cell NucleusCell Nucleus StructuresChromatinChromosomes
Core Histone Macro-H2ACore Histone Macro-H2A.1, humanH2AX protein, humanHMGN Proteins

Narrower (3)

DinucleosomesPolynucleosomesnucleosome assembly

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2010
2010
Phosphorylation and the creation of interhomolog bias during meiosis in yeast
Comment on: Niu H, et al. Mol Cell 2009; 36:393-404. 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
The binding sites for large and small high-mobility-group (HMG) proteins. Studies on HMG-nucleosome interactions in vitro.
Studies in vitro of binding high-mobility-group (HMG) proteins to nucleosomal particles that differ in their DNA contents reflect… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Unfolding of nucleosomes by ethidium binding.
We report spectroscopic, hydrodynamic, and biochemical studies on the complex of ethidium bromide with 140 base pair nucleosomal… 
1980
1980
Nucleosomes structure and its dynamic transitions
  • A. Mirzabekov
  • Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics (print)
  • 1980
  • Corpus ID: 5474638
The discovery of nucleosomes as a basic repeating unit of the chromatin structure organizing the major part of eukaryotic DNA… 
1980
1980
Enrichment of estradiol-receptor complexes in a transcriptionally active fraction of chromatin from MCF-7 cells.
We have examined the interaction of the estradiol receptor molecule with chromatin in MCF-7 cells, a human breast tumor cell line… 
1980
1980
Electrophoretic separation of a class of nucleosomes enriched in HMG 14 and 17 and actively transcribed globin genes.
Monomer nucleosomes from chick erythrocytes can be fractionated according to their electrophoretic mobility in (comparatively… 
1979
1979
Specific histone-histone contacts are ruptured when nucleosomes unfold at low ionic strength.
The ordered unfolding of the nucleosome core within chromatin at low ionic strengths has been studied. The results show that… 
1979
1979
Core nucleosomes by digestion of reconstructed histone-DNA complexes.
Reconstructed complexes of the inner histones (H2A, H2B, H3, H4) and a variety of DNAs were digested with micrococcal nuclease to… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Closely spaced nucleosome cores in reconstituted histone.DNA complexes and histone-H1-depleted chromatin.
It has been demonstrated by digestion studies with micrococcal nuclease that reconstitution of complexes from DNA and a mixture… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Altered nucleosome structure containing DNA sequences complementary to 19S and 26S ribosomal RNA in Physarum polycephalum.
The localization of DNA sequences coding for ribosomal RNA was studied by hybridization of purified ribosomal RNA to DNA from…