Epigenetic codes for heterochromatin formation and silencing: Rounding up the usual suspects

Cell

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 489-500

  Richards, Eric J ^a   Elgin, Sarah C R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; HISTONE; LYSINE;

ACETYLATION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; DNA PACKAGING; EUCHROMATIN; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW;

EID: 0037154972     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(02)00644-X     Document Type: Review

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