Eloise Prieto

Removal of histone tails from nucleosome dissects the physical mechanisms of salt-induced aggregation, linker histone H1-induced compaction, and 30-nm fiber formation of the nucleosome array (2009)

Hizume, Kohji, Nakai, Tonau, Araki, Sumiko, Prieto, Eloise, Yoshikawa, Kenichi, Takeyasu, Kunio

In order to reveal the roles of histone tails in the formation of higher-order chromatin structures, we employed atomic force microscopy (AFM), and an in vitro reconstitution system to examine the...