Generation of cell-based systems to visualize chromosome damage and translocations in living cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2476-2492

  Roukos, Vassilis ^a   Burgess, Rebecca C ^a   Misteli, Tom ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; ENDONUCLEASE I SCEI; LAC REPRESSOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AI4 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TIME-LAPSE VIDEO MICROSCOPY; 3T3 CELL LINE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME; DEVICES; DNA DAMAGE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; OPERATOR GENE; PLASMID; PROCEDURES; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA DAMAGE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; MAMMALS; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84905054943     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.167     Document Type: Article

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