Active transgenes in zebrafish are enriched in acetylated histone H4 and dynamically associate with RNA Pol II and splicing complexes

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1045-1054

  Collas, Philippe ^a,c   Liang, Mei Rong ^a   Vincent, Michel ^b   Aleström, Peter ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acetylation; Danio rerio; RNA polymerase II; Splicing factor; Transgene expression

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H4; LUCIFERASE;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERPHASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; ZEBRA FISH;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DICHLORORIBOFURANOSYLBENZIMIDAZOLE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENES, REPORTER; HISTONES; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LUCIFERASES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA SPLICING; TRANSGENES; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0032954189     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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