interchromatin love

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  • adjective Between chromatins

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inter- +‎ chromatin

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Examples

  • Genes with minimal introns (blue) reside at the surface of chromosome territory lining interchromatin compartment space and/or near nuclear speckle to facilitate the unique splicing process.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jiang Zhu et al. 2010

  • The current mammalian nuclear architecture model, i.e., chromosome territory - interchromatin compartment (CT-IC) model, depicts that chromosomes in the nucleus are organized as chromosome territories (CTs), which are sponge-like structure built up from condensed high-order chromatin fibers.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jiang Zhu et al. 2010

  • The immunostaining of SATB1 and β-catenin in primary thymocytes indicates that they colocalize in the interchromatin space and form a distinguished substructure inside the nucleus.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles Dimple Notani et al. 2010

  • Matera AG (1999) Nuclear bodies: multifaceted subdomains of the interchromatin space.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michael P. Walker et al. 2009

  • Kwon YS, Hutt KR, Hu Q, Cardamone MD, et al. (2008) Nuclear receptor-enhanced transcription requires motor - and LSD1-dependent gene networking in interchromatin granules.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Li Jia et al. 2008

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