Histone Methylation by PRC2 Is Inhibited by Active Chromatin Marks

Molecular Cell

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 330-341

  Schmitges, Frank W ^a   Prusty, Archana B ^b   Faty, Mahamadou ^a   Stützer, Alexandra ^c   Lingaraju, Gondichatnahalli M ^a   Aiwazian, Jonathan ^a   Sack, Ragna ^a   Hess, Daniel ^a   Li, Ling ^d   Zhou, Shaolian ^d   Bunker, Richard D ^a   Wirth, Urs ^e   Bouwmeester, Tewis ^e   Bauer, Andreas ^e   Ly Hartig, Nga ^b   Zhao, Kehao ^d   Chan, Homan ^d   Gu, Justin ^d   Gut, Heinz ^a   Fischle, Wolfgang ^c   Müller, Jürg ^b   Thomä, Nicolas H ^a   more..

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b Genome Biology Unit   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research   (China)

^e NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; LYSINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYSINE; METHYLATION; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINOBLASTOMA-BINDING PROTEIN 4; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79955494277     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.03.025     Document Type: Article

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