Chromatin-association of the Polycomb group protein BMI1 is cell cycle-regulated and correlates with its phosphorylation status

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 4627-4639

  Voncken, Jan Willem ^a   Schweizer, Dieter ^b   Aagaard, Louise ^c   Sattler, Lydia ^b   Jantsch, Michael F ^b   Van Lohuizen, Maarten ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Phosphorylation; Polycomb

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERPHASE; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TUMOR CELL;

CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0033398254     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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