How mammalian transcriptional repressors work

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 271, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2855-2862

  Thiel, Gerald ^a,b   Lietz, Michael ^a,c   Hohl, Mathias ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterochromatin; Histone deacetylation; MeCP2; REST; Retinoblastoma

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

CELL CYCLE; DEACETYLATION; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 3242811226     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.04174.x     Document Type: Review

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