title: Chromatin studies by DNA-protein cross-linking.
abstract: Our current level of understanding of chromatin structure was to a large extent achieved with the help of DNA-protein cross-linking. The versatile inventory of cross-linking techniques allows the identification of the contacts between DNA and proteins with a single nucleotide-single amino acid precision, to detect minor components of the complex nucleoprotein systems, to reveal the interactions of the flexible protein domains with DNA, and to assay for conformational changes in the nucleosomes.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Embryology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pruss
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Bavykin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002843:Chromatin / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D003432:Cross-Linking Reagents / Q000378:metabolism*; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D018983:DNA Footprinting; D019175:DNA Methylation; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006657:Histones / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009707:Nucleosomes / Q000737:chemistry*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011687:Purines / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D013463:Sulfuric Acid Esters / Q000378:metabolism; D035582:Transcription Factor TFIIIA; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism; D014981:Xenopus
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin; D003432:Cross-Linking Reagents; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D006657:Histones; D009707:Nucleosomes; D011687:Purines; D013463:Sulfuric Acid Esters; D035582:Transcription Factor TFIIIA; D014157:Transcription Factors; D004247:DNA; C007482:dimethyl sulfate