A Guide to Packing Your DNA

Cell. 2016 Apr 7;165(2):259-61. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.03.039.

Abstract

Genetic material is not randomly organized within the nucleus of a cell. How this organization occurs and why it matters are questions that Cell editor Marta Koch posed to Mitchell Guttman, Job Dekker, and Stavros Lomvardas. Excerpts from this Conversation are presented below, and an audio file of the full discussion is available with the article online.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cell Nucleus / chemistry*
  • Cell Nucleus / genetics
  • Cell Nucleus / physiology
  • Chromosomes / chemistry*
  • Chromosomes / genetics
  • Chromosomes / metabolism
  • DNA / chemistry*
  • DNA / genetics
  • DNA / metabolism
  • Genomics
  • National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
  • United States

Substances

  • DNA