Assembly of Polycomb complexes and silencing mechanisms

Genetica

Volumn 117, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 191-197

  Pirrotta, Vincenzo ^a   Poux, Sylvain ^a   Melfi, Raffaella ^a   Pilyugin, Maxim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chromatin memory; Chromatin silencing; Polycomb complexes

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; POLYCOMB PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0038548210     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022992011833     Document Type: Review

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