Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Editors |
Contributors |
Devices for Chromosome Handling / Part I: |
Mechanical Approaches to Elucidate Mechanisms of Chromosome Condensation at the Nano- and Microlevels / Kazushige Kawabata ; Keisuke Nomura ; Kensuke Ikeda ; Osamu Hoshi ; Daisuke Fukushi ; Hisashi Haga ; Tatsuo UshikiChapter 1: |
Development of Novel AFM Probes for Chromosome Manipulation / Masato Saito ; Gen Hashiguchi ; Eiichi TamiyaChapter 2: |
Microchamber Array-Based Sequence-Specific DNA Detection from a Single Chromosome via Trace Volume PCR / Chapter 3: |
On-Chip Chromosome Sorter Using Electric and Magnetic Fields / Takahito Inoue ; Yasuyuki Fujita ; Susumu Uchiyama ; Tomoyuki Doi ; Kiichi Fukui ; Hiroshi YokoyamaChapter 4: |
Visualization of Chromosomes at the Nano- and Microlevels / Part II: |
Fluorescence Microscopy for Analysis of Chromosome Dynamics / Sachihiro MatsunagaChapter 5: |
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) as a Tool for Comparative Genomics: Application of FISH to Studies of Chromosome Evolution in Vertebrates / Yoichi Matsuda ; Mami Shibusawa ; Kazumi Matsubara ; Chizuko Nishida-UmeharaChapter 6: |
Immunocytochemistry for Analyzing Chromosomes / Toru Hirota ; Eiji Kimura ; Nae KomatsubaraChapter 7: |
Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy of Mammalian Metaphase Chromosomes / Sumire Inaga ; Keiichi TanakaChapter 8: |
Atomic Force Microscopy of Human Chromosomes in Relation to Their Higher-Order Structure / Chapter 9: |
Mechanism of Higher-Order Chromatin Folding Revealed by AFM Observation of In Vitro Reconstituted Chromatin / Kohji Hizume ; Toshiro Kobori ; Shige H. Yoshimura ; Kunio TakeyasuChapter 10: |
Scanning Near-Field Optical/Atomic Force Microscopy as a Tool for Simultaneous Specification of Chromosome Topography and Particular Gene Location on the Nanometer Scale / Motoharu Shichiri ; Tomoyuki Yoshino ; Shoji Hagiwara ; Kohei Akazawa ; Toshio Ohtani ; Shigeru SugiyamaChapter 11: |
Chromosomes as Nanomaterials / Part III: |
Isolation of Human and Plant Chromosomes as Nanomaterials / Chapter 12: |
Proteome Analysis of Human Metaphase Chromosomes / Chapter 13: |
Antipeptide Antibodies for Examining the Conformation and Molecular Assembly of an Intracellular Protein / Masatoshi Nakagawa ; Nobuko Ohmido ; Katsumi Ishikawa ; Takachika AzumaChapter 14: |
Structure and Interactions of the Imitation SWI-Type Chromatin-Remodeling Complex, ATP-Dependent Chromatin-Assembly Factor / Tadayasu Ohkubo ; Mariana Petkova-Andonova ; Yukiko Kojima ; Shota Nakamura ; Hiroko Fujita ; Yoshinori Nishi ; Hiroaki Nakano ; Yuji KobayashiChapter 15: |
Dynamic and Functional Analysis of Chromosomal Proteins / Chapter 16: |
Informatics of Chromosome Imaging / Part IV: |
Development of a Sustainable Chromosome Imaging Database / Kenji Taniguchi ; Chiharu Mitsueda ; Naho Okumura ; Wakako MiyazakiChapter 17: |
Image Database and Image Analysis of Chromosome Information / Shin-ichi Toyabe ; Takayuki MatsutoChapter 18: |
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