Modeling the dynamic epigenome: From histone modifications towards self-organizing chromatin

Epigenomics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-219

  Rohlf, Thimo ^a,b   Steiner, Lydia ^a   Przybilla, Jens ^a   Prohaska, Sonja ^a   Binder, Hans ^a   Galle, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

bistability; chromatin remodeling; cooperative binding; epigenetic memory; heritable cell fates; histone modification; multistate conversion; theoretical model; transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; DYNAMICS; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC MODEL; HISTONE MODIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 84859203483     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.11.117     Document Type: Review

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