Meiotic events at the centromeric heterochromatin: Histone H3 phosphorylation, topoisomerase IIα localization and chromosome condensation

Chromosoma

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 412-425

  Cobb, John ^a   Miyaike, Mitsuko ^b   Kikuchi, Akihiko ^c   Handel, Mary Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); HISTONE H3; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II, EUKARYOTIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MATURATION-PROMOTING FACTOR; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED ICR; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0033385187     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050393     Document Type: Article

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