Transcriptional regulation by trithorax-group proteins

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Kingston, Robert E ^a   Tamkun, John W ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOPLASMS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84881078810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a019349     Document Type: Article

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