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. 2009 Mar 18;96(6):2245–2260. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2008.11.040

Table 3.

Optimum deformation scores of human α-satellite DNA sequences threaded on different nucleosomal templates

DNA sequence Structural template Template length (basepair steps)
60 80 100 120
I I 424 551 678 819
II I 552 812 989 1224
I II 658 978 1206 1513
II II 607 825 1033 1209

I: human α-satellite sequence incorporated in the best-resolved (2.0 Å) nucleosome core-particle structure with 146-bp DNA (NDB_ID pd0285) (2); II: different human α-satellite sequence of comparable AT-content incorporated in the 2.6 Å structure with 146-bp DNA (NDB_ID pd0286) (2).

I: nucleosomal DNA template constructed from structural fragments of variable length centered on the dyad of the 2.0 Å nucleosome structure; II: template containing corresponding fragments from the 2.6 Å structure.