Inner workings and regulatory inputs that control Polycomb repressive complex 2

Chromosoma

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 221-234

  O'Meara, M Maggie ^a   Simon, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEINS AND BINDING PROTEINS; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; EMBRYONIC ECTODERM DEVELOPMENT PROTEIN; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN NURF55; PROTEIN SUZ12; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; METHYLATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TYROSINE;

EID: 84864876023     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-012-0361-1     Document Type: Review

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