Polycomb silencing blocks transcription initiation

Molecular Cell

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 887-893

  Dellino, Gaetano I ^a,c   Schwartz, Yuri B ^a   Farkas, Gabriella ^b   McCabe, Donna ^a   Elgin, Sarah C R ^b   Pirrotta, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TATA BINDING PROTEIN RELATED FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMATIN; GENE SILENCING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMATIN; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, INSECT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 1842473890     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(04)00128-5     Document Type: Article

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