Heritable gene silencing in lymphocytes delays chromatid resolution without affecting the timing of DNA replication

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 668-674

  Azuara, Véronique ^a   Brown, Karen E ^a   Williams, Ruth R E ^a   Webb, Natasha ^a   Dillon, Niall ^a   Festenstein, Richard ^a   Buckle, Veronica ^b   Merkenschlager, Matthias ^a   Fisher, Amanda G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; DNA; RAG1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEREDITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SISTER CHROMATID; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD8; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PROTEINS; CHROMATIDS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; DNA REPLICATION; FIBROBLASTS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0038387866     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1006     Document Type: Article

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