Mechanosignaling to the cell nucleus and gene regulation

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 361-378

  Shivashankar, G V ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

chromosome assembly; cytoplasmic nuclear links; nuclear architecture; physicochemical signals; transcription compartments

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UVOMORULIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENTROPY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERPHASE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79955805353     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-042910-155319     Document Type: Article

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