Silencing of unpaired chromatin and histone H2A ubiquitination in mammalian meiosis

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1041-1053

  Baarends, Willy M ^a   Wassenaar, Evelyne ^a   Van Der Laan, Roald ^a   Hoogerbrugge, Jos ^a   Sleddens Linkels, Esther ^a   Hoeijmakers, Jan H J ^a   De Boer, Peter ^b   Grootegoed, J Anton ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE H2A;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMATIN; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; UBIQUITINATION; X CHROMATIN; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; OOCYTES; PROPHASE; RATS; SEX CHROMATIN; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SPERMATOCYTES;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 12844280588     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.3.1041-1053.2005     Document Type: Article

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