XIST RNA paints the inactive X chromosome at interphase: Evidence for a novel RNA involved in nuclear/chromosome structure

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 259-275

  Clemson, Christine Moulton ^a   McNeil, John A ^a   Willard, Huntington F ^b   Lawrence, Jeanne Bentley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DACTINOMYCIN; FIBRONECTIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; X CHROMATIN; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; COLLAGEN; DIPLOIDY; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; G1 PHASE; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MITOSIS; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; NUCLEAR MATRIX; RNA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030034051     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.132.3.259     Document Type: Article

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