Different epigenetic layers engage in complex crosstalk to define the epigenetic state of mammalian rRNA genes

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue R1, 2007, Pages

  Grummt, Ingrid ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SPACER DNA; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME NOR; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34547774654     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddm020     Document Type: Review

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