Engineered chromosome regions with altered sequence composition demonstrate hierarchical large-scale folding within metaphase chromosomes

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-35

  Strukov, Yuri G ^a   Wang, Yan ^a,b   Belmont, Andrew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Kraft Foods Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome scaffold; Large scale structure of chromatin; Mitotic chromosome; Scaffold associated regions; Transgenes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LACTOSE OPERON; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHO CELLS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURES; CHROMOSOMES; CLONE CELLS; CRICETINAE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; LAC OPERON; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MATRIX-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS;

EID: 0038148584     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200303098     Document Type: Article

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