The histone methyltransferases Trithorax and Ash1 prevent transcriptional silencing by Polycomb group proteins

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 373-377

  Klymenko, Tetyana ^a   Jürg, Müller ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Histone methylation; Polycomb; Trithorax

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE H3; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LYSINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; IMAGINAL DISC; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTATION;

EID: 2442594080     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400111     Document Type: Article

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