Chromatin Structure & Function

By Alan P. Wolffe

Book Overview

Provides a concise and coherent account of the nature, structure and assembly of chromatin and its involvement in the processes of DNA transcription, replication and repair. The book constantly interrelates the structure of eukaryotic DNA with the nuclear processes it undergoes. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0127619127
• ISBN13: 9780127619125
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 299 Pages

Customer Reviews

Chromatin Structure and Function:

Overall this is a good book, considering the fact that chromatin structure and function is such a broad subject. It is very comprehensive, and I liked that about it. It has a definite bias in favour of chromatin STRUCTURE rather than function. It tends to deal mainly with chromatin at the molecular level rather than at the chromosome level. I would have preferred more information about chromosomes, centromeres, telomeres,...

well written and up to date

In a fast-moving field such as chromatin structure and function, one is usually better off reading journal articles than trying to gain a background by reading a text. This is not the case with Dr. Wolffe's book, Chromatin: Structure and Function. The book covers the background and then forges into new and interesting data. I was required to buy this book for a class, and was originally resentful of the cost, but now...