Chromatin domains and the interchromatin compartment form structurally defined and functionally interacting nuclear networks

Chromosome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 707-733

  Albiez, Heiner ^a   Cremer, Marion ^a   Tiberi, Cinzia ^b   Vecchio, Lorella ^b   Schermelleh, Lothar ^a   Dittrich, Sandra ^a   Küpper, Katrin ^a   Joffe, Boris ^a   Thormeyer, Tobias ^a   Von Hase, Johann ^c   Yang, Siwei ^c   Rohr, Karl ^c   Leonhardt, Heinrich ^a   Solovei, Irina ^a   Cremer, Christoph ^c   Fakan, Stanislav ^b   Cremer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin condensation; Chromosome territories; Interchromatin compartment; Nuclear architecture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBROBLAST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CHO CELLS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; CRICETINAE; DNA; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

EID: 33751258576     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-006-1086-x     Document Type: Article

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