Interactions among polycomb domains are guided by chromosome architecture

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Tolhuis, Bas ^a   Blom, Marleen ^a   Kerkhoven, Ron M ^a   Pagie, Ludo ^a   Teunissen, Hans ^a   Nieuwland, Marja ^a   Simonis, Marieke ^b   de Laat, Wouter ^b   van Lohuizen, Maarten ^a   van Steensel, Bas ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL B PROTEIN; ANTENNAPEDIA PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; INSECT PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HISTONE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HOMEOBOX; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INSECT CHROMOSOME; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, INSECT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HISTONES; LARVA; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 79953750893     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001343     Document Type: Article

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