Heterochromatin and tri-methylated lysine 20 of histone H4 in animals

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2491-2501

  Kourmouli, Niki ^a   Jeppesen, Peter ^a   Mahadevhaiah, Shantha ^b   Burgoyne, Paul ^b   Wu, Rong ^c   Gilbert, David M ^c   Bongiorni, Silvia ^d   Prantera, Giorgio ^d   Fanti, Laura ^e   Pimpinelli, Sergio ^e   Shi, Wei ^f   Fundele, Reinald ^f   Singh, Prim B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Heterochromatin; Histone code

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H4; LYSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME BAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTERPHASE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; PROTEIN METHYLATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; DNA; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENETIC MARKERS; HEMIPTERA; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; LYSINE; MALE; METHYLATION; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OOCYTES; S PHASE; SPERMATOZOA; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; COCCOIDEA; MURINAE;

EID: 3042858906     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01238     Document Type: Article

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