Nuclear organization, chromatin structure, and gene expression / edited by Roel van Driel and Arie P. Otte.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

xiii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : general perspective and key questions / Roel van Driel and Arie P. Otte -- Nucleosomes : dynamic repressors of transcription / Sari Pennings ... [et al.] -- Role of a positioned nucleosome in constitutive repression and hormone induction of the MMTV promoter / Miguel Beato ... [et al.] -- Histone modification and transciptional competence / Alan P. Wolffe -- Mechanisms for alleviating chromatin-mediated repression of transcrition / Janet Quinn and Craig L. Peterson -- Chormatin domains and boundary elements / Victor G. Corces and Tatiana I. Gerasimova -- Nuclear matrix-associated regions / M.E. Eva Ludérus and Roel van Driel -- The chicken lysozyme chromatin domain / Constanze Bonifer ... [et al.] -- Locus control regions / Frank Grosveld and Peter Fraser -- Interphase chromosome positions and structure during silencing, transcription and replication / Laura Manuelidis -- Genes and transcripts in the interphase nucleus / David L. Spector -- DNA methylation and genomic imprinting / Marisa S. Bartolomei -- X chromosome inactivation and heritable chromatin structure / Arthur D. Riggs and Maty Hershkovitz -- Drosophila heterochromatin : retreats for repeats / Amy K. Csink, Georgette L. Sass, and Steven Henikoff -- Mechanisms of heritable gene silencing during development of drosophila / Achim Breiling and Renato Paro -- Heterochromatin and regulation of gene expression in saccharomyces cerevisiae / Miriam Braunstein, Scott G. Holmes, and James R. Broach -- Homology-dependent gene silencing in transgenic plants and related phenomena in other eukaryotes / Marjori A. Matzke and Antonius J.M. Matzke.

Copy 1 Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.