Rearrangement of chromatin domains during development in Xenopus

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1541-1552

  Vassetzky, Yegor ^a   Hair, Alan ^a,b   Méchali, Marcel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genomic organization; Nuclear matrix; Transcription; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; CHROMATIN; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; KERATINOCYTES; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR MATRIX; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034659363     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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