Synergistic recognition of an epigenetic DNA element by Pleiohomeotic and a Polycomb core complex

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 1755-1760

  Mohd Sarip, Adone ^a   Cléard, Fabienne ^b   Mishra, Rakesh K ^b,c   Karch, François ^b   Verrijzer, C Peter ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Epigenetic silencing; Pleiohomeotic; Polycomb; PRE; Silenceosome

Indexed keywords

DNA; ISOPROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; EPIGENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 23744459419     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.347005     Document Type: Article

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