In vivo chromatin accessibility correlates with gene silencing in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1539-1549

  Boivin, Antoine ^a   Dura, Jean Maurice ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENE PRODUCT; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, INSECT; HETEROCHROMATIN; INSECT PROTEINS; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031731777     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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