Chromatin decondensation and nuclear softening accompany Nanog downregulation in embryonic stem cells

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2060-2070

  Chalut, Kevin J ^a,b   Höpfler, Markus ^a   Lautenschläger, Franziska ^a   Boyde, Lars ^a   Chan, Chii Jou ^a   Ekpenyong, Andrew ^a   Martinez Arias, Alfonso ^b   Guck, Jochen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NANOG PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KINETICS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

EID: 84869406280     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.10.015     Document Type: Article

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