Chromatin Beacons: Global Sampling of Chromatin Physical Properties Using Chromatin Charting Lines

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 701, Issue , 2011, Pages 301-314

  Amini, Aniça ^a   Luo, Chongyuan ^b   Lam, Eric ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

3D nuclear space; Arabidopsis; Epigenetics; Fluorescence microscopy; Luciferase

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, PLANT; LUCIFERASES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSGENES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 79953775954     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61737-957-4_17     Document Type: Chapter

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