Title
Functional architecture of the nucleus: organizing the regulatory machinery for gene expression, replication and repair
UMMS Affiliation
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Department of Cell Biology
Date
10-24-2003
Document Type
Article
Medical Subject Headings
Animals; Apoptosis; Cell Nucleus; DNA Methylation; *DNA Repair; *DNA Replication; *Gene Expression Regulation; Humans; Models, Genetic; Nuclear Matrix
Disciplines
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
The organization and sorting of regulatory information for transcription, replication and repair depends on components of nuclear architecture. It is necessary, therefore, to understand cellular processes within the context of intranuclear microenvironments that mediate the focal assembly of the machinery for transcription, replication and repair and which facilitate the orchestration of these essential processes. Here, we discuss how nuclear anatomy supports the temporal and spatial coordination of regulatory protein recruitment for combinatorial control.
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Citation: Trends Cell Biol. 2003 Nov;13(11):584-92.