Effector proteins for methylated histones: An expanding family

Cell Cycle

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 919-926

  Daniel, Jeremy A ^a   Pray Grant, Marilyn G ^a   Grant, Patrick A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Jordan Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Chromodomain; DNA repair; Gene silencing; Heterochromatin; Histone; Methylation; Modification; Transcription; Tudor domain

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; HISTONE; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; LYSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; POLYPEPTIDE;

ACETYLATION; CHROMATIN; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SILENCING; METHYLATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; X CHROMOSOME;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 25444520791     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.4.7.1824     Document Type: Review

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