Spatial relationship between transcription sites and chromosome territories

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-24

  Verschure, Pernette J ^a   Van Der Kraan, Ineke ^a   Manders, Erik M M ^a   Van Driel, Roel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chromatin structure; Chromosome territory; Fluorescent in situ hybridization; Nuclear organization; Transcription sites

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME;

ACETYLATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; DNA; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELLS; HISTONES; HUMANS; INTERPHASE; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0033523776     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.147.1.13     Document Type: Article

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