Distributed probing of chromatin structure in vivo reveals pervasive chromatin accessibility for expressed and non-expressed genes during tissue differentiation in C. elegans

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Sha, Ky ^a,b,c   Gu, Sam G ^a   Pantalena Filho, Luiz C ^b,c   Goh, Amy ^b,c   Fleenor, Jamie ^b   Blanchard, Daniel ^a,b,c   Krishna, Chaya ^a   Fire, Andrew ^a,b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DNA ADENINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; DIRECT ASYMMETRIC LIGATION END CAPTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INTESTINE; MOLECULAR PROBE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, HELMINTH; HISTONES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77955215014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-465     Document Type: Article

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