Building up the inactive X chromosome

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-70

  Matarazzo, Maria R ^a   Cerase, Andrea ^a   D'Esposito, Maurizio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epigenetic mechanism; Nuclear architecture; Pseudoautosomal region 2 (PAR2); X chromosome inactivation; X inactive specific transcript

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE LOCUS OF XIST PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GENE PRODUCT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; X INACTIVE SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BASE PAIRING; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOSOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 38849152852     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BC20070073     Document Type: Article

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