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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
卷 96, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.96.052412
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- Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (OCW)
The positions along DNA molecules of nucleosomes, the most abundant DNA-protein complexes in cells, are influenced by the sequence-dependent DNA mechanics and geometry. This leads to the nucleosome positioning code, a preference of nucleosomes for certain sequence motives. Here we introduce a simplified model of the nucleosome where a coarse-grained DNA molecule is frozen into an idealized superhelical shape. We calculate the exact sequence preferences of our nucleosome model and find it to reproduce qualitatively all the main features known to influence nucleosome positions. Moreover, using well-controlled approximations to this model allows us to come to a detailed understanding of the physics behind the sequence preferences of nucleosomes.
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