Chromosome territories - a functional nuclear landscape

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 307-316

  Cremer, Thomas ^a   Cremer, Marion ^a   Dietzel, Steffen ^a   Müller, Stefan ^a   Solovei, Irina ^a   Fakan, Stanislav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION;

EID: 33646526019     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2006.04.007     Document Type: Review

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