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SUBMITTER: Wang JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2522279 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Ji-Ping JP Fondufe-Mittendorf Yvonne Y Xi Liqun L Tsai Guei-Feng GF Segal Eran E Widom Jonathan J
PLoS computational biology 20080912 9
The exact lengths of linker DNAs connecting adjacent nucleosomes specify the intrinsic three-dimensional structures of eukaryotic chromatin fibers. Some studies suggest that linker DNA lengths preferentially occur at certain quantized values, differing one from another by integral multiples of the DNA helical repeat, approximately 10 bp; however, studies in the literature are inconsistent. Here, we investigate linker DNA length distributions in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome, using tw ...[more]