Histone modification and the control of heterochromatic gene silencing in Drosophila

Chromosome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 377-392

  Ebert, Anja ^a,b   Lein, Sandro ^a   Schotta, Gunnar ^a,b   Reuter, Gunter ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Gene silencing; Heterochromatin; Histone modification; Position effect variegation

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H3;

ACETYLATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; DROSOPHILA; E(VAR) GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SU(VAR) GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EUCHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33745727065     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-006-1066-1     Document Type: Review

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