Functional anatomy of polycomb and trithorax chromatin landscapes in Drosophila embryos

PLoS Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Schuettengruber, Bernd ^a   Ganapathi, Mythily ^a,d   Leblanc, Benjamin ^a   Portoso, Manuela ^a   Jaschek, Rami ^b   Tolhuis, Bas ^c   Van Lohuizen, Maarten ^c   Tanay, Amos ^b   Cavalli, Giacomo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; RECR PROTEIN; TRITHORAX GROUP PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; POLYCOMB PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRITHORAX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA BINDING; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 58849088872     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000013     Document Type: Article

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