Local chromatin mobility is independent of transcriptional activity

Cell Cycle

Volumn 5, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 1989-1995

  Mearini, Giulia ^a,b   Fackelmayer, Frank O ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin structure; Chromosome territory; Dynamics; Nuclear architecture; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CLONING; CHO CELL; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRANUCLEAR SPACE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 33748926916     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.5.17.3186     Document Type: Article

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