Modeling of chromosomal epigenetic silencing processes

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Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 173-178

  Becskei, Attila ^a   Scherrer, Simone ^a   Kelemen, Janos Z ^a   Murray, Ann Ehrenhofer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bistability; Cellular memory; Heterochromatin; SIR; Sum1

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE H3; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DEACETYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC MODEL; HISTONE ACETYLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REPORTER GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79960293951     PISSN: 21541264     EISSN: 21541272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/trns.2.4.16344     Document Type: Article

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