Current understanding and importance of histone phosphorylation in regulating chromatin biology

Current Opinion in Drug Discovery and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 613-622

  Pérez Cadahía, Beatriz ^a   Drobic, Bojan ^b   Khan, Protiti ^b   Shivashankar, Chaitra C ^b   Davie, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; chromatin; chromatin function; chromatin structure; DNA repair; histone phosphorylation; mitosis; transcription

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; HISTONE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; SERINE; THREONINE;

APOPTOSIS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; MAMMAL CELL; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; MITOSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 77956408804     PISSN: 13676733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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