Mapeo de la resolución de los nucleosomas plegamiento de los cromosomas en la levadura por micro-C

Tsung-Han S Hsieh1, Assaf Weiner2, Bryan Lajoie3

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.

Cell
|June 30, 2015
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores desarrollaron Micro-C, un método para mapas de plegado de cromosomas de alta resolución. Los genomas de levadura muestran nuevos dominios de autoasociación, lo que revela información sobre la compactación del genoma y el papel de las proteínas clave en el plegamiento.

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