Constitutive heterochromatin: A surprising variety of expressed sequences

Chromosoma

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 419-435

  Dimitri, Patrizio ^a   Caizzi, Ruggiero ^b   Giordano, Ennio ^c   Carmela Accardo, Maria ^a   Lattanzi, Giovanna ^d   Biamonti, Giuseppe ^e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^e Istituto di Genetica Molecolare   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SATELLITE DNA;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GASTRULATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEAT SHOCK; HUMAN; INTRON; MITOSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 67649499976     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-009-0211-y     Document Type: Review

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