Emerging roles of Polycomb silencing in X-inactivation and stem cell maintenance

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 69, Issue , 2004, Pages 319-326

  Muyrers Chen, I ^a   Hernandez Munoz I ^a   Lund, A H ^a   Valk Lingbeek, M E ^a   Van Der Stoop, P ^a   Boutsma, E ^a   Tolhuis, B ^a   Bruggeman, S W M ^a   Taghavi, P ^a   Verhoeven, E ^a   Hulsman, D ^a   Noback, S ^a   Tanger, E ^a   Theunissen, H ^a   Van Lohuizen, M ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRITHORAX GROUP PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BMI1 PROTEIN; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H3; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PROTEIN P53; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1;

CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; STEM CELL; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE UBIQUITINATION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; STEM CELL SELF-RENEWAL;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTO-ONCOGENES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 23044467887     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2004.69.319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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