Unique roles have been identified for the histone octamer in the formation and stabilization
of higher order chromatin structures. Histone octamers were assembled onto 12 tandem …

Adolfo Ruiz-Carrillo,** Pere Puigdomenech,* Gabi Eder, and Rudolf Lurz abstract: The
organization of the higher order structure of chromatin has been examined in chicken …

Nucleosomes have been reconstituted onto dodecameric repeats of a 208-base pair
nucleosome positioning sequence at various subsaturating molar ratios of histone octamer …

Jeffrey C. Hansen,** Juan Ausio, ValerieH. Stanik, and KE van Holde Department of
Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-6503 …

Both intact and nuclease-isolated chromatin fibers have been examined at different degrees
of salt-induced compaction, using a variety of preparation techniques. The results suggest …

The formation of higher order structures by nucleosome oligomers of graded sizes with
increasing ionic strength has been studied in solution, by measuring sedimentation …

The basic chromatin fibre (the 10 nm diameter fibre) is a linear repeating array of
nucleosomes, or nucleosome filament. The core of each disk-like nucleosome is a wedge …

A detailed hydrodynamic study of chicken erythrocyte chromatin as a function of ionic
strength, and comparison with results reported earlier for rat liver chromatin [Butler, PJG and …

Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biophysics and Beckman Institute, University
of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 Received May I, 1991; Revised Manuscript Received June …

Defined nucleosomal arrays reconstituted from core histone octamers and twelve 208 bp
tandem repeats of Lytechinus 5S rDNA (208-12 nucleosomal arrays) possess the ability to …