Transcriptional regulation by histone ubiquitination and deubiquitination

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2733-2740

  Zhang, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GALACTOSE; HISTONE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HYDROLASE; LIGASE; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; POLYUBIQUITIN; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN BRE1; PROTEIN CDC34; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN RAD6; RIBOSOME RNA; SATELLITE DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BUDDING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL MUTANT; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONJUGATION; COVALENT BOND; DISSOCIATION; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MACRONUCLEUS; METHYLATION; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TELOMERE; TETRAHYMENA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITINS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0344442779     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1156403     Document Type: Review

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