The emerging role of nuclear architecture in DNA repair and genome maintenance

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 243-254

  Misteli, Tom ^a   Soutoglou, Evi ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; CYTOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 62849083222     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2651     Document Type: Review

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