The proteomic investigation of chromatin functional domains reveals novel synergisms among distinct heterochromatin components

Molecular and Cellular Proteomics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 764-780

  Soldi, Monica ^a   Bonaldi, Tiziana ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE H1; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2AX; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ACTIVE CHROMATIN DOMAIN; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SILENT CHROMATIN DOMAIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA DAMAGE; HELA CELLS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; ISOTOPE LABELING; LYSINE; METHYLATION; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TYROSINE;

EID: 84874627227     PISSN: 15359476     EISSN: 15359484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M112.024307     Document Type: Article

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