The nucleus: a highly organized but dynamic structure.

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The nucleus in plants and animals is a highly structured organelle containing several well-defined subregions or suborganelles. These include the nucleolus, interphase chromosome territories and coiled bodies. We have visualized transcription sites in plants at both light- and electron-microscopy level by the incorporation of BrUTP. In the nucleolus many dispersed foci are revealed within the dense fibrillar component, each of which probably corresponds to a single gene copy. In the nucleopla...

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Authors: Gonzalez-Melendi, P; Beven, A; Boudonck, K; Abranches, R; Wells, B

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of microscopy
• Volume: 198
• Issue: Pt 3
• Pages: 199-207
• Publication date: 2000-06-01
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.2000.00701.x
• EISSN: 1365-2818
• ISSN: 0022-2720
• Language: English
• Keywords: Uridine Triphosphate; Secale cereale; Luminescent Proteins; Microscopy, Immunoelectron; Microscopy, Confocal; Recombinant Fusion Proteins; Plants; Cell Nucleus; Autoantigens; Peas; Transcription, Genetic; Ribonucleoprotein, U2 Small Nuclear; Green Fluorescent Proteins; Plants, Toxic; Triticum; Immunohistochemistry; Tobacco; snRNP Core Proteins; Ribonucleoproteins, Small Nuclear; Chromosomes