ReviewChromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology2002
Lampbrush chromosomes and associated bodies: new insights into principles of nuclear structure and function.
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- Functional State of Lampbrush Chromosomes in Early Vitellogenic Oocytes of Hibernating FrogsJournal of developmental biology · 2026Article
- Non-Canonical Male Meiosis in a Marine Gastropod,Biology · 2025Article
- Lampbrush chromosomes of Danio rerio.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2025Article
- Assignment of the somatic A/B compartments to chromatin domains in giant transcriptionally active lampbrush chromosomes.Epigenetics & chromatin · 2023Article
- A proposed unified interphase nucleus chromosome structure: Preliminary preponderance of evidence.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Mapping epigenetic modifications on chicken lampbrush chromosomes.Molecular cytogenetics · 2020Article
- Imaging the dynamics of transcription loops in living chromosomes.Chromosoma · 2018Article
- A role for SOX9 in post-transcriptional processes: insights from the amphibian oocyte.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Reading and editing the Pleurodeles waltl genome reveals novel features of tetrapod regeneration.Nature communications · 2017Article
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- Centromeric and non-centromeric satellite DNA organisation differs in holocentric Rhynchospora species.Chromosoma · 2017Article
- Boundaries of loop domains (insulators): Determinants of chromosome form and function in multicellular eukaryotes.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2017Review
- Observation of Extensive Chromosome Axis Remodeling during the "Diffuse-Phase" of Meiosis in Large Genome Cereals.Frontiers in plant science · 2017Article
- Transcription of highly repetitive tandemly organized DNA in amphibians and birds: A historical overview and modern concepts.RNA biology · 2016Review
- Low-voltage scanning electron microscopy study of lampbrush chromosomes and nuclear bodies in avian and amphibian oocytes.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Microdissection of lampbrush chromosomes as an approach for generation of locus-specific FISH-probes and samples for high-throughput sequencing.BMC genomics · 2016Article
- Determinants of Chromosome Architecture: Insulator Pairing in cis and in trans.PLoS genetics · 2016Article
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- Cytological maps of lampbrush chromosomes of European water frogs (Pelophylax esculentus complex) from the Eastern Ukraine.BMC genetics · 2013Article
- Three-dimensional organisation of RNA-processing machinery in avian growing oocyte nucleus.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2012Article
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Abstract
The lampbrush chromosomes and assorted nuclear bodies of amphibian and avian oocytes provide uniquely advantageous and amenable experimental material for cell biologists to study the structure and function of the eukaryotic nucleus, and in particular to address the processes of nuclear gene expression. Recent findings discussed here include the molecular analysis of the actively elongating RNA polymerase complexes associated with lampbrush chromosome loops and of the association between loop nascent transcripts and RNA processing components. In addition, several types of chromosome structure that do not outwardly resemble simple extended loops and that may house novel nuclear functions have recently been studied in detail. Among these a type of chromosomal body that can also exist free in the oocyte nucleus, the Cajal body, has been shown to possess a range of characteristics that suggest it is involved in the assembly of macromolecular complexes required for gene expression. Homologous structures have also been described in somatic nuclei. Fundamental aspects of the looped organization exhibited by lampbrush as well as other chromosomes have also been addressed, most notably by the application of a technique for de-novo chromosome assembly.
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