The many faces of histone lysine methylation

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 286-298

  Lachner, Monika ^a   Jenuwein, Thomas ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA; LYSINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; GENE SILENCING; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; LYSINE; METHYLATION; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036591878     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(02)00335-6     Document Type: Review

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