Randomness of spatial distributions of two proteins in the cell nucleus involved in mRNA synthesis and their relationship

Cytometry

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 297-309

  Noordmans, H J ^a,b   Van Der Kraan, K ^a   Van Driel, R ^a   Smeulders, A W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Immunofluorescent labelling; Protein BRG1; RNA polymerase II; Spatial statistics; Spot detection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; DNA HELICASES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RABBITS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032211202     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19981101)33:3<297::AID-CYTO3>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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