Chromatin modifications and the DNA damage response to ionizing radiation

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 2 JAN, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kumar, Rakesh ^a   Horikoshi, Nobuo ^a   Singh, Mayank ^a   Gupta, Arun ^a   Misra, Hari S ^a,b   Albuquerque, Kevin ^a   Hunt, Clayton R ^a   Pandita, Tej K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Histone modifications

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BRCA1 PROTEIN; CASEIN KINASE II; E1A ASSOCIATED P300 PROTEIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE GCN5; HISTONE H2AX; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE 1; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE; REPLICATION FACTOR A; SERINE; THREONINE;

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION; HISTONE UBIQUITINATION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW;

EID: 84875888933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2012.00214     Document Type: Review

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