Nuclear physics: Quantitative single-cell approaches to nuclear organization and gene expression

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2010, Pages 113-126

  Lionnet, T ^a,c   Wu, B ^a   Grunwald D ^a,b   Singer, R H ^a,c   Larson, D R ^a,c,d  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CLB2; PROTEIN DOA1; PROTEIN KAP104; PROTEIN MDN1; PROTEIN POL1; PROTEIN PRE3; PROTEIN PRE7; PROTEIN PRP8; PROTEIN PUP1; PROTEIN RPB1; PROTEIN RPB2; PROTEIN RPB3; PROTEIN SW15; PROTEIN TAF12; PROTEIN TAF5; PROTEIN TAF6; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA BINDING; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR EXPORT SIGNAL; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA PROCESSING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL NUCLEUS; ENZYME KINETICS;

BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; BIOPHYSICS; CELL NUCLEUS; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 80052398196     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2010.75.057     Document Type: Article

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