Histone H2A deubiquitinase activity of the Polycomb repressive complex PR-DUB

Nature

Volumn 465, Issue 7295, 2010, Pages 243-247

  Scheuermann, Johanna C ^a   De Ayala Alonso, Andrés Gaytán ^b   Oktaba, Katarzyna ^a   Ly Hartig, Nga ^a   McGinty, Robert K ^b   Fraterman, Sven ^a   Wilm, Matthias ^a   Muir, Tom W ^b   Müller, Jürg ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASX PROTEIN; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HOX PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE DEUBIQUITINASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UBIQUITIN THIOLESTERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOCHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RECONSTITUTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HOX GENE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; UBIQUITINATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BIOCATALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HISTONES; HUMANS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEOSOMES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN THIOLESTERASE; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77952429798     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08966     Document Type: Article

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