How to rule the nucleus: divide et impera

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2016, Pages 47-59

  Solovei, Irina ^a   Thanisch, Katharina ^a   Feodorova, Yana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EUCHROMATIN; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETICS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EUCHROMATIN; HETEROCHROMATIN;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EUCHROMATIN; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84971428467     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2016.02.014     Document Type: Review

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