Replication in context: Dynamic regulation of DNA replication patterns in metazoans

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 588-600

  Aladjem, Mirit I ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DNA; LAMIN B; REPLICATION INITIATOR PROTEIN DNAA;

CHINESE HAMSTER; CHORION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DEVELOPMENT; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION TIMING; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; METAZOON; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALASSEMIA; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UNSTABLE DNA SEQUENCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; METAZOA;

EID: 34447565003     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2143     Document Type: Review

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