Loss of the Suv39h histone methyltransferases impairs mammalian heterochromatin and genome stability

Cell

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 323-337

  Peters, Antoine H F M ^a   O'Carroll, Dónal ^a   Scherthan, Harry ^b   Mechtler, Karl ^a   Sauer, Stephan ^a   Schöfer, Christian ^c   Weipoltshammer, Klara ^c   Pagani, Michaela ^a   Lachner, Monika ^a   Kohlmaier, Alexander ^a   Opravil, Susanne ^a   Doyle, Michael ^a   Sibilia, Maria ^a   Jenuwein, Thomas ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H3; HISTONE SUV39H; METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERICENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 17944380227     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(01)00542-6     Document Type: Article

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