Elimination of a specific histone H3K14 acetyltransferase complex bypasses the RNAi pathway to regulate pericentric heterochromatin functions

Genes and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 214-219

  Reddy, Bharat D ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Niu, Lifang ^a   Higuchi, Emily C ^b   Marguerat, Samuel B ^c   Bähler, Jürg ^c   Smith, Gerald R ^b   Jia, Songtao ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

H3K14 acetylation; Heterochromatin; Meiotic recombination; Mst2; RNAi; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

CENTROMERE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA POLYMERASE II; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 79551608097     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1993611     Document Type: Article

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