The histone modification pattern of active genes revealed through genome-wide chromatin analysis of a higher eukaryote

Genes and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1263-1271

  Schübeler, Dirk ^a,e   MacAlpine, David M ^c   Scalzo, David ^a   Wirbelauer, Christiane ^e   Kooperberg, Charles ^a   Van Leeuwen, Fred ^a   Gottschling, Daniel E ^a   O'Neill, Laura P ^d   Turner, Bryan M ^d   Delrow, Jeffrey ^a   Bell, Stephen P ^c   Groudine, Mark ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Chromatin immunoprecipitation; Drosophila; Epigenetics; Histone; Microarray

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; DNA MICROARRAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE CULTURE;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; HISTONES; METHYLATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 2642570305     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1198204     Document Type: Article

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