Cathepsin L stabilizes the histone modification landscape on the Y chromosome and pericentromeric heterochromatin

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4172-4184

  Bulynko, Yaroslava A ^a   Hsing, Lianne C ^b   Mason, Robert W ^c   Tremethick, David J ^d   Grigoryev, Sergei A ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^d Biology and Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN L; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H3; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA METHYLATION; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CATHEPSINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKERS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYSINE; MALE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NIH 3T3 CELLS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS; Y CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33646886645     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00135-06     Document Type: Article

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