Primary Recipient

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Amount

$141,248.00

Award Date

9/08/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Eukaryotic genomic DNA exists and functions in a highly compacted form, as a repeating array of nucleosomes called chromatin. Nucleosomes occlude much of the DNA that wraps them from interaction with other gene regulatory proteins and enzymes, yet nucleos