Condensin and cohesin complexity: The expanding repertoire of functions

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 391-404

  Wood, Andrew J ^a,b   Severson, Aaron F ^a   Meyer, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; CONDENSIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; COHESINS; CONDENSIN COMPLEXES; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MEIOSIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

METAZOA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES;

EID: 77952563068     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2794     Document Type: Review

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