Table Of Contents:
PrefaceList of contributorsOther volumes in the seriesCh. 1Chromatin structure
and dynamics : a historical perspective1Ch. 2The core particle of the
nucleosome13Ch. 3Paradox lost : nucleosome structure and dynamics by the DNA
minicircle approach45Ch. 4The linker histones75Ch. 5Chromosomal HMG-box
proteins103Ch. 6The role of HMGN proteins in chromatin function135Ch. 7HMGA
proteins : multifaceted players in nuclear function155Ch. 8Core histone
variants181Ch. 9Histone modifications205Ch. 10The role of histone variability in
chromatin stability and folding241Ch. 11Nucleosome modifications and their
interactions ; searching for a histone code291Ch. 12DNA methylation and
chromatin structure309Ch. 13Chromatin structure and function : lessons from
imaging techniques343Ch. 14Chromatin structure and dynamics : lessons from
single molecule approaches369Ch. 15Theory and computational