Nuclear architecture: Is it important for genome function and can we prove it?

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1067-1075

  Mateos Langerak, Julio ^a,c   Goetze, Sandra ^a,d   Leonhardt, Heinrich ^b   Cremer, Thomas ^b   Van Driel, Roel ^a   Lanctôt, Christian ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Gene expression; Gene positioning; High throughput screening; Macromolecular crowding; Magnetic tweezers; Nuclear organization

Indexed keywords

CELL ACTIVITY; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR MATRIX;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 36849095645     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: 10974644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21521     Document Type: Review

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