Nucleosome binding and histone methyltransferase activity of Drosophila PRC2

EMBO Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 348-353

  Nekrasov, Maxim ^a   Wild, Brigitte ^a   Müller, Jürg ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin proteins; E(z) EZH2; Histone methylation; Polycomb repression

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; EMBRYONIC ECTODERM DEVELOPMENT PROTEIN; HISTONE; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN PRC2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SILENCING; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STOICHIOMETRY;

ANIMALS; BACULOVIRIDAE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEOSOMES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; XENOPUS;

EID: 17644410781     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400376     Document Type: Article

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