Chromosome looping in yeast: Telomere pairing and coordinated movement reflect anchoring efficiency and territorial organization

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 375-387

  Bystricky, Kerstin ^a,c   Laroche, Thierry ^a,d   Van Houwe, Griet ^a   Blaszczyk, Marek ^b   Gasser, Susan M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^d FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENETICS; INTERPHASE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELOMERE; YEAST; YEAST CELL;

CELL NUCLEOLUS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; G1 PHASE; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; INTERPHASE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 13444257509     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200409091     Document Type: Article

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