Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1589419 Micron 2011 18 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Review of more than 30 years of TEM and AFM research on higher-order chromatin structure. ► Including cryo-EM, electron tomography, AFM in aqueous media, force spectroscopy and nanotribology. ► Emphasis on the structure of compact chromatin fibers and dense nucleosome aggregates. ► Implications of the discovery of chromatin plates in metaphase chromosomes are discussed. ► A synthetic view of the different chromatin folding possibilities is presented.
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