Formation of nuclear heterochromatin the nucleolar point of view

Epigenetics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 811-814

  Guetg, Claudio ^a   Santoro, Raffaella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Heterochromatin; Nucleolus; Nucleus; PARP1; Pericentric heterochromatin; PRNA; RDNA; TIP5

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN E; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE 1; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84864680102     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.21072     Document Type: Article

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