Allele-specific nuclear positioning of the monoallelically expressed astrocyte marker GFAP

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 489-498

  Takizawa, Takumi ^a   Gudla, Prabhakar R ^b   Guo, Liying ^c   Lockett, Stephan ^b   Misteli, Tom ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Monoallelic expression; Nuclear architecture; Spatial gene positioning

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE PROBE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 39449123232     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1634608     Document Type: Article

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