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The 30 nm Chromatin Fiber as a Flexible Polymer

J. Y. Ostashevsky State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, 11203, USA
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C. S. Lange State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, 11203, USA
Pages 813-820 | Received 22 Jun 1993, Published online: 21 May 2012

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J.Y. Ostashevsky, B. Reichman & C.S. Lange. (1999) Higher-Order Structure of Mammalian Chromatin Deduced from Viscoelastometry Data. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 17:3, pages 567-580.
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Job Dekker. (2008) Mapping in Vivo Chromatin Interactions in Yeast Suggests an Extended Chromatin Fiber with Regional Variation in Compaction. Journal of Biological Chemistry 283:50, pages 34532-34540.
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Toshiro Kobori, Satoshi Iwamoto, Kunio Takeyasu & Toshio Ohtani. (2007) Chromatin dynamics of unfolding and refolding controlled by the nucleosome repeat length and the linker and core histones. Biopolymers 85:4, pages 295-307.
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Elvira R. Eivazova & Thomas M. Aune. (2003) Dynamic alterations in the conformation of the Ifng gene region during T helper cell differentiation . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101:1, pages 251-256.
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Jörg Langowski & Helmut Schiessel. 2004. Chromatin Structure and Dynamics: State-of-the-Art. Chromatin Structure and Dynamics: State-of-the-Art 397 420 .
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Karsten Rippe. (2001) Making contacts on a nucleic acid polymer. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 26:12, pages 733-740.
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Honglu Wu & Marco Durante. (2001) A biophysical model for estimating the frequency of radiation-induced mutations resulting from chromosomal translocations. Advances in Space Research 27:2, pages 361-367.
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Rainer K. Sachs, Artem L. Ponomarev, Philip Hahnfeldt & Lynn R. Hlatky. (1999) Locations of radiation-produced DNA double strand breaks along chromosomes: a stochastic cluster process formalism. Mathematical Biosciences 159:2, pages 165-187.
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Guang Y. Wen, Edmund C. Jenkins, Erick M. Goldberg, Marilyn Genovese, W. Ted Brown & Henryk M. Wisniewski. (1999) First transmission electron micrograph of continuous mitotic spindle fibers between polar area and chromosome ends. American Journal of Medical Genetics 83:4, pages 334-337.
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Christian Münkel, Roland Eils, Steffen Dietzel, Daniele Zink, Carsten Mehring, Gero Wedemann, Thomas Cremer & Jörg Langowski. (1999) Compartmentalization of Interphase Chromosomes Observed in Simulation and Experiment. Journal of Molecular Biology 285:3, pages 1053-1065.
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Joseph Ostashevsky. (1998) A Polymer Model for the Structural Organization of Chromatin Loops and Minibands in Interphase Chromosomes. Molecular Biology of the Cell 9:11, pages 3031-3040.
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