Automated Microscopy Identifies Estrogen Receptor Subdomains with Large-Scale Chromatin Structure Unfolding Activity

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 157-166

  Carpenter, Anne E ^a,b   Ashouri, Anousheh ^a   Belmont, Andrew S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c B107 CLSL ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Automated microscopy; Chromatin; Estrogen receptor; High throughput screening; Steroid

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

EID: 1942534136     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.10113     Document Type: Article

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