Transcriptional repression mediated by the human polycomb-group protein EED involves histone deacetylation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 474-478

  Van Der Vlag, Johan ^a   Otte, Arie P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; PROTEIN; TRICHOSTATIN A;

ARTICLE; DEACETYLATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACETYLATION; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONES; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032751323     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/70602     Document Type: Article

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