A conserved chromatin architecture marks and maintains the restricted germ cell lineage in worms and flies

Developmental Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 747-757

  Schaner, Christine E ^a   Deshpande, Girish ^b   Schedl, Paul D ^b   Kelly, William G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; LYSINE; MESSENGER RNA;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLY; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STEM CELL; WORM;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GERM CELLS; HISTONES; METHYLATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242331196     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(03)00327-7     Document Type: Article

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