Chromosome-wide gene-specific targeting of the Drosophila dosage compensation complex

Genes and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 858-870

  Gilfillan, Gregor D ^a   Straub, Tobias ^a   De Wit, Elzo ^b   Greil, Frauke ^b   Lamm, Rosemarie ^a   Van Steensel, Bas ^b   Becker, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chromatin remodeling; Gene expression; Histone modification; Microarray; MSL complex; Transcription

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN MSL1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; X CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 33645520163     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1399406     Document Type: Article

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