In situ nuclear organization of regulatory machinery

Methods Mol Biol. 2008:455:239-59. doi: 10.1007/978-1-59745-104-8_17.

Abstract

Regulatory machinery for gene expression, replication, and repair are architecturally organized in nuclear microenvironments. This compartmentalization provides threshold concentrations of macromolecules for the organization and assembly of regulatory complexes for combinatorial control. A mechanistic under standing of biological control requires the combined application of molecular, cellular, biochemical, and in vivo genetic approaches. This chapter provides methodologies to characterize nuclear organization of regulatory machinery by in situ immunofluorescence microscopy.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cell Culture Techniques*
  • Cell Cycle
  • Cell Nucleus / metabolism*
  • Cell Nucleus / ultrastructure
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Chromosomes / metabolism
  • Chromosomes / ultrastructure
  • Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching
  • Gene Expression Regulation*
  • Humans
  • Intermediate Filaments / metabolism
  • Intermediate Filaments / ultrastructure
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence / methods