RNA polymerase III in Cajal bodies and lampbrush chromosomes of the Xenopus oocyte nucleus

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 3466-3476

  Murphy, Christine ^a   Wang, Zhengxin ^a   Roeder, Robert G ^a   Gall, Joseph G ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA 5S; TRANSFER RNA; AMANITIN; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; COILED BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; STAINING; TARGET CELL; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; CONFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMANITINS; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; COILED BODIES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA POLYMERASE III; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0036796971     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E02-05-0281     Document Type: Article

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