A simple method for improving the specificity of anti-methyl histone antibodies

Epigenetics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 392-395

  Connor, Caroline ^a   Cheung, Iris ^a   Simon, Andrew ^a   Jakovcevski, Mira ^a   Weng, Zhiping ^a   Akbarian, Schahram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody; CHIP; CHIP Seq; H3K4me2; H3K4me3; Histone; Specificity

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ANTIBODY; HISTONE H3; LYSINE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 77954673409     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.5.5.11874     Document Type: Article

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