Combinatorial assembly and function of chromatin regulatory complexes

Epigenomics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 567-580

  Lange, Martin ^a   Demajo, Santiago ^a   Jain, Payal ^a   Di Croce, Luciano ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

chromatin remodeling; epigenetics; gene regulation; histone modifications; Polycomb; transcription; Trithorax

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BARRIER TO AUTOINTEGRATION FACTOR; BRG1 PROTEIN; DNA; HELICASE; INOSITOL REQUIRING 80 PROTEIN; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN SWI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF; TRXG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN REGULATORY COMPLEX; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA BINDING; ENZYME BINDING; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA HELICASES; DNA METHYLATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; MI-2 NUCLEOSOME REMODELING AND DEACETYLASE COMPLEX; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 80054755683     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.11.83     Document Type: Review

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