Protosilencers as building blocks for heterochromatin

BioEssays

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 828-835

  Fourel, Geneviève ^a   Lebrun, Eléonore ^a   Gilson, Eric ^a  

^a Univ Claude Bernard   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0036713367     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10139     Document Type: Review

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