Mammalian homologues of the Polycomb-group gene Enhancer of zeste mediate gene silencing in Drosophila heterochromatin and at S. cerevisiae telomeres

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3219-3232

  Laible, Götz ^e   Wolf, Andrea ^e   Dorn, Rainer ^a   Reuter, Gunter ^a   Nislow, Corey ^b,c   Lebersorger, Angelika ^e   Popkin, Dan ^d   Pillus, Lorraine ^b   Jenuwein, Thomas ^e  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Mammalian E(z) homologoues; Pc G and PEV in Drosophila; SET domain; TPE in S.cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER GENE; TELOMERE; TRANSGENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE;

EID: 0030922630     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.11.3219     Document Type: Article

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