Specialized transcription factories within mammalian nuclei

Critical Reviews in Eukaryotic Gene Expression

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-29

  Pombo, Ana ^a   Jones, Emma ^a   Iborra, Francisco J ^a   Kimura, Hiroshi ^a   Sugaya, Kimihiko ^a   Cook, Peter R ^a   Jackson, Dean A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coiled body; Nucleolus; PML body; RNA polymerase; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSKELETON; GENE ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034062751     PISSN: 10454403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/critreveukargeneexpr.v10.i1.40     Document Type: Review

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