Ribosomal gene transcription is organized in foci within nucleolar components

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 111-118

  Mosgoeller, Wilhelm ^a   Schöfer, Christian ^a   Wȩsierska Ga̧dek, Józefa ^b   Steiner, Marianne ^a   Müller, Markus ^a   Wachtler, Franz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Inst of Tumorbiology Cancer Res   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMOURIDINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; RIBOSOME DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIOGENESIS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RIBOSOME; SERTOLI CELL;

EID: 0031885018     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004180050208     Document Type: Article

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