Nuclear organization of mammalian genomes: Polar chromosome territories build up functionally distinct higher order compartments

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 146, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1211-1226

  Sadoni, Nicolas ^a   Langer, Sabine ^a   Fauth, Christine ^a   Bernardi, Giorgio ^b   Cremer, Thomas ^a   Turner, Bryan M ^c   Zink, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosome structure; Genome organization; Nuclear architecture; Nuclear compartments; Polar chromosome territories

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL POLARITY; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; CLONE CELLS; CRICETINAE; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENOME; HISTONES; HUMANS; INTERPHASE; KARYOTYPING; MICE; MITOSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033588973     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.146.6.1211     Document Type: Article

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