The contradictory definitions of heterochromatin: Transcription and silencing

Chromosoma

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 110-122

  Huisinga, Kathryn L ^a   Brower Toland, Brent ^a   Elgin, Sarah C R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; DNA; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA PACKAGING; DROSOPHILA; EUCHROMATIN; EUKARYOTE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; EUCHROMATIN; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TERMINOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33644994575     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-006-0052-x     Document Type: Short Survey

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