title: Thermal fluctuations in histone during denaturation.
abstract: In this paper, we address the issue of thermal fluctuations during the thermal denaturation of linker histone H1 which is the basic ingredient of chromatin assembly. We measure the thermal fluctuations using a sensitive nanocalorimeter based thermal fluctuation measurement set up which can measure fluctuations of the order of 1 part per billion. We find that the denaturation of the linker histone is not a simple process. It is characterized by cooling jumps (energy absorbing jumps) followed by slow dynamics which is followed by heating jumps (bursts of energy release).
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Nagapriya
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Raychaudhuri
authors.forename: G V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Shivashankar
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006657:Histones / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011489:Protein Denaturation; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D006657:Histones