Chromatin folding: From linear chromosomes to the 4D nucleus

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2010, Pages 461-473

  Cheutin, T ^a   Bantignies, F ^a   Leblanc, B ^a   Cavalli, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PCG PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HEMOGLOBIN ALPHA CHAIN; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN FOLDING; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INSULATOR ELEMENT; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 80052412101     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2010.75.029     Document Type: Article

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