Crowded chromatin is not sufficient for heterochromatin formation and not required for its maintenance

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 445-453

  Walter, Andreas ^a,d   Chapuis, Catherine ^a,b,c   Huet, Sébastien ^a,b,c   Ellenberg, Jan ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell nucleus; Chromatin; Fluorescence microscopy; Macromolecular crowding; Nuclear organelles; Osmotic perturbations

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2B;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUCHROMATIN; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MODULATION; MOLECULAR CROWDING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MACROMOLECULAR CROWDING; NUCLEAR ORGANELLES; OSMOTIC PERTURBATIONS;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EUCHROMATIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHOTOBLEACHING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84888065325     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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