Two Distinct Repressive Mechanisms for Histone 3 Lysine 4 Methylation through Promoting 3′-End Antisense Transcription

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Margaritis, Thanasis ^a   Oreal, Vincent ^b   Brabers, Nathalie ^a   Maestroni, Laetitia ^b   Vitaliano Prunier, Adeline ^c   Benschop, Joris J ^a   van Hooff, Sander ^a   van Leenen, Dik ^a   Dargemont, Catherine ^c   Géli, Vincent ^b   Holstege, Frank C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; LYSINE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN COMPASS; PROTEIN SET1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTISENSE TRANSCRIPTION; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HISTONE METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PHO84 GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; METHYLATION; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84866887452     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002952     Document Type: Article

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