Ring1B Compacts Chromatin Structure and Represses Gene Expression Independent of Histone Ubiquitination

Molecular Cell

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 452-464

  Eskeland, Ragnhild ^a   Leeb, Martin ^b   Grimes, Graeme R ^a   Kress, Clémence ^a   Boyle, Shelagh ^a   Sproul, Duncan ^c   Gilbert, Nick ^c   Fan, Yuhong ^d   Skoultchi, Arthur I ^d   Wutz, Anton ^b   Bickmore, Wendy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DEVBIO; DNA

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H3; HOX PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PROTEIN RING1B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UBIQUITINATION;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HISTONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; METHYLATION; MICE; MUTATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 77951947926     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.02.032     Document Type: Article

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