Transcriptional repression by neuron-restrictive silencer factor is mediated via the Sin3-histone deacetylase complex

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2147-2157

  Roopra, Avtar ^a,b   Sharling, Lisa ^a   Wood, Ian C ^a,b   Briggs, Teresa ^a   Bachfischer, Ulla ^a   Paquette, Alice J ^c   Buckley, Noel J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACETYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HUMANS; NEURONS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034001908     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.6.2147-2157.2000     Document Type: Article

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