The key to development: Interpreting the histone code?

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 163-176

  Margueron, Raphael ^a   Trojer, Patrick ^a   Reinberg, Danny ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BETA GLOBIN; CITRULLINE; DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 26; HISTONE; HISTONE H1; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINASE; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SAGA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ACETYLATION; B LYMPHOCYTE; CANCER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CPG ISLAND; DEACETYLATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE CODE; HOX GENE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INHERITANCE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UBIQUITINATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; YEAST;

EID: 15744396813     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2005.01.005     Document Type: Review

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