Three distinct chromatin domains in telomere ends of polytene chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster Tel mutants

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 118, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 5465-5477

  Andreyeva, Evgenia N ^a   Belyaeva, Elena S ^a   Sameshin, Valerii F ^a   Pokholkova, Galina V ^a   Zhimulev, Igor F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Heterochromatin; Silencing; Telomeres; Telomeric Associations

Indexed keywords

DNA; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 2; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SUPPRESSOR OF UNDERREPLICATION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EUCHROMATIN; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETROPOSON; SALIVARY GLAND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUCHROMATIN; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MUTATION; RETROELEMENTS; TELOMERE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 30544432864     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02654     Document Type: Article

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