Methylation at lysine 4 of histone H3 in ecdysone-dependent development of Drosophila

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6962, 2003, Pages 78-83

  Sedkov, Yurii ^a   Cho, Elizabeth ^a   Petruk, Svetlana ^a   Cherbas, Lucy ^b   Smith, Sheryl T ^a   Jones, Richard S ^c   Cherbas, Peter ^b   Canaani, Eli ^d   Jaynes, James B ^a   Mazo, Alexander ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; DNA; ENZYME KINETICS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IMMUNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

BIORECEPTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION;

HORMONES;

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; DNA; ECDYSONE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE H3; LIGAND; LYSINE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN P160; PROTEIN TRR; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; STEROID HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY; HORMONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEDGEHOG; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; LIGAND BINDING; METAMORPHOSIS; METHYLATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETINA; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ECDYSONE; EYE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; LYSINE; MALE; METHYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, STEROID;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; ERINACEIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0242665681     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02080     Document Type: Article

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