DNA Déméthylation: Turning Genes On

Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler

Volumn 379, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 401-408

  Bergman, Yehudit ^a   Mostoslavsky, Raul ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

BINDING SITE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE REPRESSION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031901512     PISSN: 01773593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1998.379.4-5.401     Document Type: Article

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