Ku-related antigens are associated with transcriptionally active loci in Chironomus polytene chromosomes

Chromosoma

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 150-157

  Gorab, Eduardo ^a   Botella, Luisa Maria ^a   Quinn, John Peter ^b   Amabis, José Mariano ^c   Díez, José Luís ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BALBIANI RING; CELL NUCLEUS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHROMOSOME BAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LARVA; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SALIVARY GLAND;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; DIPTERA;

EID: 0029792356     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02509496     Document Type: Article

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