Braking the silence: How heterochromatic gene repression is stopped in its tracks

BioEssays

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 344-349

  Donze, David ^a,b   Kamakaka, Rohinton T ^b  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA;

DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; NUCLEOSOME; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DNA; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOSOMES; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036010597     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10072     Document Type: Review

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