Epigenetic inheritance mediated by histone lysine methylation: Maintaining transcriptional states without the precise restoration of marks?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1609, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Chang ^a,b   Xu, Mo ^b   Zhu, Bing ^b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Chromatin modification; Epigenetics; Inheritance; Transcription

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYTOLOGY; DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GENOMICS; GERM CELL; HERITABILITY; METHYLATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROTEIN;

HISTONE; LYSINE; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MITOSIS; NUCLEOSOME; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; HISTONES; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LYSINE; METHYLATION; MITOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOSOMES; S PHASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84876539719     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0332     Document Type: Review

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