Spatial organization of large-scale chromatin domains in the nucleus: A magnified view of single chromosome territories

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1597-1610

  Ferreira, João ^a   Paolella, Giovanni ^b   Ramos, Carlos ^a   Lamond, Angus I ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biotecnologie Mediche   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHO CELL; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; KIDNEY CELL; LYMPHOID CELL; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MICRONUCLEUS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOPHASE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CRICETINAE; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; HUMANS; INTERPHASE; MARSUPIALIA;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; METATHERIA;

EID: 0031417772     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.7.1597     Document Type: Article

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