Dynamic assembly of silent chromatin during thymocyte maturation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 502-506

  Su, Ruey Chyi ^a   Brown, Karen E ^b   Saaber, Sanam ^a   Fisher, Amanda G ^b   Merkenschlager, Matthias ^b   Smale, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; LYSINE; TRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEACETYLATION; DEVELOPMENT; DNA METHYLATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLANDS; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IONOMYCIN; IONOPHORES; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2442464995     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1351     Document Type: Article

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