Maintenance of gene silencing by the coordinate action of the H3K9 methyltransferase G9a/KMT1C and the H3K4 demethylase Jarid1a/KDM5A

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 18845-18850

  Chaturvedi, Chandra Prakash ^a   Somasundaram, Brinda ^a,b   Singh, Kulwant ^a   Carpenedo, Richard L ^a   Stanford, William L ^a,b   Dilworth, F Jeffrey ^a,b   Brand, Marjorie ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beta globin locus; Epigenetics; Erythroid differentiation; Hemoglobin

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3 LYSINE 4; HISTONE H3 LYSINE 9; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE G9A; RETINOBLASTOMA BINDING PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GLOBIN GENE; HISTONE METHYLATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LOCI; GLOBINS; HISTONE DEMETHYLASES; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; METHYLATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; RETINOBLASTOMA-BINDING PROTEIN 2;

EID: 84869238311     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213951109     Document Type: Article

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