Transcriptional repression by XPc1, a new polycomb homolog in Xenopus laevis embryos, is independent of histone deacetylase

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3958-3968

  Strouboulis, John ^a   Damjanovski, Sashko ^a   Vermaak, Danielle ^a   Meric, Funda ^a   Wolffe, Alan P ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE DEACETYLASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DEACETYLATION; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

DROSOPHILA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032974104     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.6.3958     Document Type: Article

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