Polycomb group gene silencing proteins are concentrated in the perichromatin compartment of the mammalian nucleus

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 335-343

  Cmarko, Dusan ^a   Verschure, Pernette J ^b   Otte, Arie P ^b   van Driel, Roel ^b   Fakan, Stanislav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Gene silencing; Immunoelectron microscopy; PcG proteins; Transcription

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN PCG; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIVER; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE SILENCING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RATS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037439634     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00225     Document Type: Review

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