Chromatin
Structure & Function
3rd Edition
Published on 29. July 1998
447 pages
978-0-08-052913-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Third Edition of Chromatin: Structure and Function brings the reader up-to-date with the remarkable progress in chromatin research over the past three years. It has been extensively rewritten to cover new material on chromatin remodeling, histone modification, nuclear compartmentalization, DNA methylation, and transcriptional co-activators and co-repressors. The book is written in a clear and concise fashion, with 60 new illustrations. Chromatin: Structure and Function provides the reader with a concise and coherent account of the nature, structure, and assembly of chromatin and its active involvement in the processes of DNA transcription, replication and repair. This book consistently interrelates the structure of eukaryotic DNA with the nuclear processes it undergoes, and will be essential reading for students and molecular biologists who want to really understand how DNA works.Key Features* Written in a clear and concise fashion* Includes 60 new illustrations* Extensively rewritten* Brings the reader up-to-date with the remarkable progress in chromatin research over the past three years
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Person
Alan P. Wolffe is Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Embryology and of the Section on Molecular Biology at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He was educated in the UK, studying biochemistry at Oxford and completing graduate research with the Medical Research Council in London before moving to the United States. After a post-doctoral fellowship funded by the European Molecular Biology Organization at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Dr. Wolffe joined the National Institutes of Health in 1988. His research interests include the earliest events in vertebrate development, with respect to the mechanisms through which nucleic acid binding proteins influence gene expression.
Content
Preface to the first edition.Preface to the second edition.Preface to the third edition.Overview.Chromatin Structure.Chromatin and Nuclear Assembly.How Do Nuclear Processes Occur in Chromatin?Future Prospects.References.Index.
