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SUBMITTER: Vlijm R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3457989 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vlijm Rifka R Smitshuijzen Jeremy S J JS Lusser Alexandra A Dekker Cees C
PloS one 20120925 9
While many proteins are involved in the assembly and (re)positioning of nucleosomes, the dynamics of protein-assisted nucleosome formation are not well understood. We study NAP1 (nucleosome assembly protein 1) assisted nucleosome formation at the single-molecule level using magnetic tweezers. This method allows to apply a well-defined stretching force and supercoiling density to a single DNA molecule, and to study in real time the change in linking number, stiffness and length of the DNA during ...[more]