Common ground: Small RNA programming and chromatin modifications

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 258-265

  Lejeune, Erwan ^a   Allshire, Robin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GERM CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 79957844677     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2011.03.005     Document Type: Review

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