Heterochromatin assembly: A new twist on an old model

Chromosome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-94

  Horn, Peter J ^a   Peterson, Craig L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clr4; Cullin 4; Fission yeast; Heterochromatin; Rik1

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; EPIGENETICS; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; DNA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; METHYLATION; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 33644626412     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-005-1018-1     Document Type: Article

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