The Polycomb group protein EZH2 directly controls DNA methylation

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7078, 2006, Pages 871-874

  Viré, Emmanuelle ^a   Brenner, Carmen ^a   Deplus, Rachel ^a   Blanchon, Loïc ^a   Fraga, Mario ^b   Didelot, Céline ^a   Morey, Lluis ^c   Van Eynde, Aleyde ^d   Bernard, David ^a   Vanderwinden, Jean Marie ^a   Bollen, Mathieu ^d   Esteller, Manel ^b   Di Croce, Luciano ^c   De Launoit, Yvan ^a,e   Fuks, François ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

^c CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; DNA; ENZYMES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

DNA METHYLATION; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASES (DNMTS); GENE ACTIVITY; GENOMIC SEQUENCING;

PROTEINS;

DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; ENHANCER OF ZESTE HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SULFITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING;

EID: 32844459336     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04431     Document Type: Article

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