Imaging transcription in living cells

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 173-196

  Darzacq, Xavier ^a,b   Yao, Jie ^a,c   Larson, Daniel R ^a,d   Causse, Sébastien Z ^a,b   Bosanac, Lana ^a,b   De Turris, Valeria ^a,d   Ruda, Vera M ^a,b   Lionnet, Timothee ^a,d   Zenklusen, Daniel ^a,d   Guglielmi, Benjamin ^a,c   Tjian, Robert ^a,c   Singer, Robert H ^a,d  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling; Polymerase kinetics; RNA synthesis in live cells

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DNA MICROARRAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; MS2 VIRUS; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS GENE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 67650328126     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.050708.133728     Document Type: Review

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