Medición de la dinámica de interacción de la cromatina en la segunda escala de tiempo en genes de una sola copia

Kunal Poorey1, Ramya Viswanathan, Melissa N Carver

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 5, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

Este estudio introduce un ensayo modificado de inmunoprecipitación de cromatina (ChIP) para medir la dinámica de unión in vivo de las proteínas al ADN. El nuevo método cuantifica las interacciones rápidas de la cromatina, revelando cómo los procesos reguladores influyen en la unión y transcripción de proteínas. Palabras clave: ensayo ChIP, cromatina, dinámica de unión a las proteínas, transcripción.

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