Histone methylation by the Drosophila epigenetic transcriptional regulator Ash1

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6909, 2002, Pages 857-862

  Beisel, Christian ^a   Imhof, Axel ^b   Greene, Jaime ^a,c   Kremmer, Elisabeth ^d   Sauer, Frank ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; ALKYLATION; CATALYSIS; PROTEINS;

MITOSIS;

GENES;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HISTONE; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN ASH1; PROTEIN BRAHMA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CYTOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MEIOSIS; METHYLATION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0037167839     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01126     Document Type: Article

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