Genome-Wide Identification of Chromatin Transitional Regions Reveals Diverse Mechanisms Defining the Boundary of Facultative Heterochromatin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Li, Guangyao ^a   Zhou, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE; NUCLEOSOME;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL DENSITY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN TRANSITIONAL REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; FACULTATIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; HELA CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN BINDING; TURNOVER TIME; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENOME, HUMAN; HELA CELLS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; METHYLATION; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84879516423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067156     Document Type: Article

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