Polycomb group proteins ring1A/B link ubiquitylation of histone H2A to heritable gene silencing and X inactivation

Developmental Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 663-676

  de Napoles, Mariana ^a   Mermoud, Jacqueline E ^a   Wakao, Rika ^b   Tang, Y Amy ^a   Endoh, Mitusuhiro ^b   Appanah, Ruth ^a   Nesterova, Tatyana B ^a   Silva, Jose ^a   Otte, Arie P ^c   Vidal, Miguel ^d   Koseki, Haruhiko ^b   Brockdorff, Neil ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2A; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEM CELL; UBIQUITINATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLASTOCYST; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE DELETION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HISTONES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; STEM CELLS; UBIQUITIN;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 7744228427     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2004.10.005     Document Type: Article

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