Dynamic plasticity of large-scale chromatin structure revealed by self-assembly of engineered chromosome regions

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 190, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 761-776

  Sinclair, Paul ^b,d   Bian, Qian ^a   Plutz, Matt ^b   Heard, Edith ^c   Belmont, Andrew S ^a,b  

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

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

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; BETA GLOBIN; GENOMIC DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ERYTHROBLAST; FIBROBLAST; INTERPHASE; LACTOSE OPERON; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; TANDEM REPEAT;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GLOBINS; CHROMATIDS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; INTERPHASE; MICE; TRANSGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956383373     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200912167     Document Type: Article

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