Chromatin pattern consisting of repeating bipartite structures in WI-38 cells infected with human cytomegalovirus.
A novel chromatin structural pattern displaying bipartite and oblate ellipsoid structures orderly arranged along a fiber axis has been observed in WI-38 cells infected with human cytomegalovirus. This chromatin type coexists with chromatin fibers showing conventional nucleosomes. Each bipartite-oblate structure is 40 nm in length, about four times as long as an ordinary nucleosome, and the number of these structures per micrometer (11/micrometer) is clearly less than that of typical cellular nucleosomes (32/micrometer).
D002460:Cell Line; D002843:Chromatin / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D003587:Cytomegalovirus / Q000254:growth & development*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000196:embryology; D014779:Virus Replication
D002843:Chromatin