Chromosome Territories Meet a Condensin

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Hirano, Tatsuya ^a   Copenhaver, Gregory P ^b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME TERRITORY; CHROMOSOMES AND CHROMOSOMAL PHENOMENA; DNA REPLICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTERPHASE; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SISTER CHROMATID;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HETEROCHROMATIN; MITOSIS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; POLYTENE CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 84866181973     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002939     Document Type: Article

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