A plasmid model system shows that Drosophila dosage compensation depends on the global acetylation of histone H4 at lysine 16 and is not affected by depletion of common transcription elongation chromatin marks

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 7865-7870

  Yokoyama, Ruth ^a   Pannuti, Antonio ^a,c   Ling, Huiping ^a   Smith, Edwin R ^b,d   Lucchesi, John C ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H4; LYSINE; LYSINE 16; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; X CHROMOSOME;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONES; LYSINE; MALE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA INTERFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 36049007800     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00397-07     Document Type: Article

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