Stability of histone modifications across mammalian genomes: Implications for 'epigenetic' marking

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-34

  Lee, Benjamin M ^a   Mahadevan, Louis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatin in mammalian genomes; Histone modifications in mammals; Quantitation of ChIP assays

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H3;

ACETYLATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTROMERE; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; GENE INDUCTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SILENT GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; HISTONES; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TELOMERE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 69249154260     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: 10974644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.22250     Document Type: Review

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