Functional integration of the histone acetyltransferase MOF into the dosage compensation complex

EMBO Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2258-2268

  Morales, Violette ^a   Straub, Tobias ^a   Neumann, Martin F ^a   Mengus, Gabrielle ^a,b   Akhtar, Asifa ^a,c   Becker, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Chromosome; Histone acetylation; Male specific lethal; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE MOF; HISTONE H4; MSL PROTEIN; MSL1 PROTEIN; MSL3 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; ROX RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMO RELATED DOMAIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; DOSAGE COMPENSATED COMPLEX; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FLY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; X CHROMOSOME;

ACETYLATION; ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; MALE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; X CHROMOSOME; ZINC FINGERS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 3042541533     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600235     Document Type: Article

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