Nuclear deformability and telomere dynamics are regulated by cell geometric constraints

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2016, Pages E32-E40

  Makhija, Ekta ^a   Jokhun, D S ^a   Shivashankar, G V ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c FIRC INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actomyosin contractility; Cell geometry; Chromatin dynamics; Mechanotransduction; Telomere dynamics

Indexed keywords

LAMIN A; LAMIN C; MYOSIN; HETEROCHROMATIN;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL STRESS; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FIBROBLAST; GEOMETRY; HETEROCHROMATIN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR DEFORMABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRESS FIBER; TELOMERE; TELOMERE DYNAMICS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; NIH 3T3 CELL LINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; LAMIN TYPE A; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; STRESS FIBERS; TELOMERE;

EID: 84953240985     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1513189113     Document Type: Article

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