On-substrate lysis treatment combined with scanning probe microscopy revealed chromosome structures in eukaryotes and prokaryotes

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 415-423

  Yoshimura, Shige H ^a   Kim, Joongbaek ^a   Takeyasu, Kunio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Chromatin fibre; Interphase chromosome; Nucleoid

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; LYSOZYME;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HELA CELL; HUMAN; INTERPHASE; METABOLISM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL NUCLEUS STRUCTURES; CHROMOSOMES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTERPHASE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MURAMIDASE; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBERS; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS;

ATOMIC-FORCE-MICROSCOPY; CHROMATIN FIBERS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COVERSLIPS; HELA CELL; HIGH-ORDER; INTERPHASE CHROMOSOME; NUCLEOIDS; SCANNING-PROBE MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL UNIT;

CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 0142123387     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/52.4.415     Document Type: Article

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