Drosophila enhancer of Zeste/ESC complexes have a histone H3 methyltransferase activity that marks chromosomal Polycomb sites

Cell

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 185-196

  Czermin, Birgit ^a   Melfi, Raffaella ^b   McCabe, Donna ^b   Seitz, Volker ^a   Imhof, Axel ^a   Pirrotta, Vincenzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; LYSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN ESC; PROTEIN ZESTE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; GENE MUTATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TELOMERE;

EID: 0037131523     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(02)00975-3     Document Type: Article

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