Relationships between chromatin organization and DNA methylation in determining gene expression

Seminars in Cancer Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 339-347

  Jones, Peter L ^a   Wolffe, Alan P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Co repressors; Epigenetic control; Histone deacetylase; Methyl CpG binding proteins; Oncogenic transformation; Transcriptional silencing

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOSOME; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032732788     PISSN: 1044579X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scbi.1999.0134     Document Type: Article

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