Guanine quadruplex structures localize to heterochromatin

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 152-163

  Hoffmann, Roland F ^a   Moshkin, Yuri M ^b   Mouton, Stijn ^a   Grzeschik, Nicola A ^a   Kalicharan, Ruby D ^a   Kuipers, Jeroen ^a   Wolters, Anouk H G ^a   Nishida, Kazuki ^c   Romashchenko, Aleksander V ^b,d   Postberg, Jan ^e   Lipps, Hans ^e   Berezikov, Eugene ^a,d   Sibon, Ody C M ^a   Giepmans, Ben N G ^a   Lansdorp, Peter M ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; GUANINE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROSTOMUM LIGNANO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STYLONYCHIA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; PANCREAS ISLET; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; DROSOPHILA; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GERM CELLS; GUANINE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; PLATYHELMINTHS; POLYTENE CHROMOSOMES; RATS;

EID: 84959327297     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv900     Document Type: Article

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