Functions of chromatin remodeling factors in heterochromatin formation and maintenance

Science China Life Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-96

  Bi, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

chromatin remodeling; gene silencing; heterochromatin; inheritance; nucleosome; replication

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA;

ANIMAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOSOME; REVIEW;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84856757897     PISSN: 16747305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-012-4267-1     Document Type: Review

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