The immunoglobulin heavy chain locus control region increases histone acetylation along linked c-myc genes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 6281-6292

  Madisen, Linda ^a   Krumm, Anton ^a   Hebbes, Tim R ^b   Groudine, Mark ^a,c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; TRICHOSTATIN A;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOSOME; ONCOGENE C MYC; PLASMACYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

EID: 0031792775     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.11.6281     Document Type: Article

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