Electrostatic interactions with histone tails may bend linker DNA in chromatin

✍ Scribed by Angelo Perico; Giovanni La Penna; Luca Arcesi

• Book ID: 101721175
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 212 KB
• Volume: 81
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0006-3525
• DOI: 10.1002/bip.20371

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Is linker DNA bent in the 30‐nm chromatin fiber at physiological conditions? We show here that electrostatic interactions between linker DNA and histone tails including salt condensation and release may bend linker DNA, thus affecting the higher order organization of chromatin. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Biopolymers 81: 20–28, 2006

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