Polycomb eviction as a new distant enhancer function

Genes and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1583-1588

  Vernimmen, Douglas ^a   Lynch, Magnus D ^a   de Gobbi, Marco ^a   Garrick, David ^a   Sharpe, Jacqueline A ^a   Sloane Stanley, Jacqueline A ^a   Smith, Andrew J H ^a,b   Higgs, Douglas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Cpg islands; Enhancer; Polycomb

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; EPIGENETICS; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CPG ISLANDS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 80051515081     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.16985411     Document Type: Article

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