Monoubiquitinated H2B is associated with the transcribed region of highly expressed genes in human cells

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 483-488

  Minsky, Neri ^a,b   Shema, Efrat ^a   Field, Yair ^a   Schuster, Meromit ^a   Segal, Eran ^a   Oren, Moshe ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3K4; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P53; RNA; HISTONE; UBIQUITIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UBIQUITINATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 43149122898     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1712     Document Type: Article

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