Native and reconstituted chromosome fiber fragments
- 1 November 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Chromosoma
- Vol. 75 (2) , 177-184
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00292206
Abstract
The structure of hen erythrocyte chromatin fibers was studied with the electron microscope. Chromatin fiber fragments with a length of about 5,000 Å and an average diameter of 320 Å are composed of 13 globular subunits (superbeads) which contain different numbers of nucleosomes. Their number average corresponds to 17 nucleosomes. — The interaction of lysine-rich histones with nucleosome chains was investigated by reconstitution experiments and was found to be semi-cooperative.Keywords
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