Reduced levels of Su(var)3-9 but not Su(var)2-5 (HP1) counteract the effects on chromatin structure and viability in loss-of-function mutants of the JIL-1 histone H3S10 kinase

Genetics

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-87

  Deng, Huai ^a   Bao, Xiaomin ^a   Zhang, Weiguo ^a   Girton, Jack ^a   Johansen, Jørgen ^a   Johansen, Kristen M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; JIL 1 HISTONE KINASE; PROTAMINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 35048892516     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.075143     Document Type: Article

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