Intranuclear sphingomyelin is associated with transcriptionally active chromatin and plays a role in nuclear integrity

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 361-375

  Scassellati, Catia ^a,b   Albi, Elisabetta ^c   Cmarko, Dusan ^a,d,e   Tiberi, Cinzia ^a,f   Cmarkova, Jana ^a,d   Bouchet Marquis, Cedric ^a,g   Verschure, Pernette J ^h   Van Driel, Roel ^h   Magni, Mariapia Viola ^c   Fakan, Stanislav ^a,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active chromatin; Intranuclear sphingomyelin; Nuclear integrity; Ultrastructural cytochemistry

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL GOLD; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RESIN; SPHINGOMYELIN; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; BIODEGRADATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; EMBEDDING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRANUCLEAR SPACE; MAMMAL CELL; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MICROINJECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RIBOSOME; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; METABOLISM;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RATS; SPHINGOMYELINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77953445940     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: 1768322X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BC20090139     Document Type: Article

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