Nuclear positioning, gene activity and cancer

Cancer Biology and Therapy

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 142-146

  Guasconi, Valentina ^a   Souidi, Mouloud ^a   Ait Si Ali, Slimane ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT ANDRÉ LWOFF   (France)

^b CNRS UPR 9079 Oncogenese Differenciation et Transduction du Signal   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chromatin; Differentiation; Gene positioning; Nuclear architecture

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA;

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DNA CONTENT; DNA METHYLATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; TELOMERE; THYMOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 25144434275     PISSN: 15384047     EISSN: 15558576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cbt.4.2.1435     Document Type: Review

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