Condensed chromatin domains in the mammalian nucleus are accessible to large macromolecules

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 861-866

  Verschure, Pernette J ^a   van der Kraan, Ineke ^a   Manders, Erik M M ^a   Hoogstraten, Deborah ^b   Houtsmuller, Adriaan B ^c   van Driel, Roel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c JOSEPHINE NEFKENS INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; MACROMOLECULE; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FEMALE;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DEXTRANS; GENES, REPORTER; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0142155175     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor922     Document Type: Article

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