Sleeping beauty, awake! regulation of insulin gene expression by methylation of histone H3

Diabetes

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-29

  Cavener, Douglas R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

9 METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE H3; INSULIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLUCOSE; HISTONE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ACETYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PANCREAS ISLET;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSE; HISTONES; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; METHYLATION; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 63249089426     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db08-1520     Document Type: Note

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