Shaping the landscape: Mechanistic consequences of ubiquitin modification of chromatin

EMBO Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 619-630

  Braun, Sigurd ^a,b   Madhani, Hiten D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

heterochromatin; histone methylation; monoubiquitylation; protein degradation; ubiquitin ligase

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H2B; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TURNOVER TIME; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HISTONE DEMETHYLASES; HISTONES; HUMANS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; UBIQUITINATION; UBIQUITINS; YEASTS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84863302006     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.78     Document Type: Review

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