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Arrangement of nucleosomes in condensed chromatin fibres

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Condensed chromatin shows globules of 300 Å formed by ∼8 to 10 nucleosomes. Each globule might be an uncoiled turn of a supercoil. This supercoil forms major coils along the fibre.

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  1. Serviço de Genética, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, (Brasil)

    Maria Luiza Beçak & K. Fukuda

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  1. Maria Luiza Beçak
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This work was supported by grants from Brazilian CNPq, FAPESP and FEDIB.

We thank Dr A. Brunner Jr for the permission to use the electron microscope.

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Beçak, M.L., Fukuda, K. Arrangement of nucleosomes in condensed chromatin fibres. Experientia 35, 24–26 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01917853

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