Revisiting heterochromatin in embryonic stem cells

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Stancheva, Irina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUCHROMATIC HISTONE METHYLASE1; EUCHROMATIC HISTONE METHYLASE2; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE DEMETHYLASE; HISTONE H3; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; LYSINE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN JMJD1A; PROTEIN JMJD2C; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL RENEWAL; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HETEROCHROMATIN;

EID: 79959841605     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002093     Document Type: Article

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