Drosophila CAF-1 regulates HP1-mediated epigenetic silencing and pericentric heterochromatin stability

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 123, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 2853-2861

  Huang, Hai ^a,b   Yu, Zhongsheng ^a,b   Zhang, Shuaiqi ^a   Liang, Xuehong ^a   Chen, Jianming ^c   Li, Changqing ^a   Ma, Jun ^a,d   Jiao, Renjie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province   (China)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

CAF 1 p180; Drosophila; Heterochromatin; Histone modification; Position effect variegation

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY FACTOR 1; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE; HISTONE H3;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; EUCHROMATIN; EYE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINOBLASTOMA-BINDING PROTEIN 4;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 77956006048     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.063610     Document Type: Article

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