RNA meets chromatin

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1635-1655

  Bernstein, Emily ^a   Allis, C David ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosage compensation; Heterochromatin; RNAi; Transcriptional gene silencing

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HOX PROTEIN; RNA; THREONINE;

CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; X CHROMOSOME;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; DNA; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; METHYLATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 23044437498     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1324305     Document Type: Review

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