A long noncoding RNA maintains active chromatin to coordinate homeotic gene expression

Nature

Volumn 472, Issue 7341, 2011, Pages 120-126

  Wang, Kevin C ^a,b   Yang, Yul W ^a   Liu, Bo ^a   Sanyal, Amartya ^c   Corces Zimmerman, Ryan ^a   Chen, Yong ^d   Lajoie, Bryan R ^c   Protacio, Angeline ^a   Flynn, Ryan A ^a   Gupta, Rajnish A ^a   Wysocka, Joanna ^a   Lei, Ming ^d   Dekker, Job ^c   Helms, Jill A ^a   Chang, Howard Y ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HOMEOSTASIS;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOBOX; HOTTIP GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; DNA, INTERGENIC; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYSINE; METHYLATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79953748673     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09819     Document Type: Article

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