Polycom/Trithorax response elements and epigenetic memory of cell identity

Development

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 223-232

  Ringrose, Leonie ^a   Paro, Renato ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRITHORAX GROUP PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; POLYCOMB PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRITHORAX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

BASE PAIRING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; MAMMAL; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMEOBOX;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; STEM CELLS;

EID: 33846983276     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02723     Document Type: Review

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