Histone H3 lysine 9 methylation is an epigenetic imprint of facultative heterochromatin

Nature Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 77-80

  Peters, Antoine H F M ^a   Mermoud, Jacqueline E ^b   O’carroll, Dónal ^a,d   Pagani, Michaela ^a   Schweizer, Dieter ^c   Brockdorff, Neil ^b   Jenuwein, Thomas ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; LYSINE;

ACETYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HETEROCHROMATIN; METHYLATION; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

AMNIOCENTESIS; ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYSINE; MALE; METAPHASE; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOUTH MUCOSA; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036338205     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng789     Document Type: Article

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