Large-scale chromatin structure of inducible genes: Transcription on a condensed, linear template

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-100

  Hu, Yan ^a,b   Kireev, Igor ^a   Plutz, Matt ^a   Ashourian, Nazanin ^a,c   Belmont, Andrew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 65249098363     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200809196     Document Type: Article

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