Nuclear speckles: A model for nuclear organelles

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 605-612

  Lamond, Angus I ^a   Spector, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; CYCLIN T1; DNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; NUCLEAR RNA; PHOSPHOLIPID; POLYADENYLATED RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS STRUCTURES; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0041669439     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1172     Document Type: Review

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