Targeting genes and transcription factors to segregated nuclear compartments

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 296-303

  Isogai, Yoh ^a   Tjian, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CELL NUCLEUS DNA; ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; ERYTHROID KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NF E2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DNA MICROARRAY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE SWITCHING; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0038022718     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(03)00052-8     Document Type: Review

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