Theoretical models of possible compact nucleosome structures
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Assembly of Nucleosomal Arrays from Recombinant Core Histones and Nucleosome Positioning DNA
Published on: September 10, 2013
Neva Besker1, Claudio Anselmi, Pasquale De Santis
1Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco, Università G. D'Annunzio, Via dei Vestini 31, I-66100 Chieti, Italy. besker@cerm.unifi.it
Abstract:
Chromatin structure seems related to the DNA linker length. This paper presents a systematic search of the possible chromatin structure as a function of the linker lengths, starting from three different low-resolution molecular models of the nucleosome. Gay-Berne potential was used to evaluate the relative nucleosome packing energy. Results suggest that linker DNAs, which bridges and orientate nucleosomes, affect both the geometry and the rigidity of the global chromatin structure.
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