Developmentally regulated alterations in polycomb repressive complex 1 proteins on the inactive X chromosome

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1025-1035

  Plath, Kathrin ^a   Talbot, Dale ^b   Hamer, Karien M ^c   Otte, Arie P ^c   Yang, Thomas P ^d   Jaenisch, Rudolf ^a   Panning, Barbara ^b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYONIC ECTODERM DEVELOPMENT PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; LYSINE; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1 PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2 PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; HISTONES; HUMANS; KINETICS; LYSINE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; METHYLATION; MICE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 11244313165     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200409026     Document Type: Article

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