Role of histone H2A ubiquitination in Polycomb silencing

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7010, 2004, Pages 873-878

  Wang, Hengbin ^a   Wang, Liangjun ^b   Erdjument Bromage, Hediye ^c   Vidal, Miguel ^d   Tempst, Paul ^c   Jones, Richard S ^b   Zhang, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DNA; ENZYMES; RNA;

COVALENT MODIFICATION; HISTONES; POLYCOMB SILENCING;

TISSUE;

BMI1 PROTEIN; ENZYME; HISTONE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HPH2 PROTEIN; HUMAN POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1 LIKE PROTEIN; LYSINE; POLYCOMB PROTEIN; RING1 PROTEIN; RING2 PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FORELIMB; GENE; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; UBIQUITINATION; UBX GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; HELA CELLS; HISTONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 7244234099     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02985     Document Type: Article

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