Polycomb proteins in mammalian cell differentiation and plasticity

FEBS Letters

Volumn 585, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2067-2077

  Prezioso, Carolina ^a   Orlando, Valerio ^a  

^a DULBECCO TELETHON INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell differentiation; Cell memory; Chromatin; Epigenetics; PcG proteins

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; MYOD PROTEIN; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEUROGENIN 2; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PLASTICITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; EPIDERMIS CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; EPIGENOMICS; HUMANS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79959843359     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.04.062     Document Type: Review

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