Histone acetylation: From code to web and router via intrinsically disordered regions

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 19, Issue 28, 2013, Pages 5019-5042

  Horikoshi, Masami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Epigenetics; Gene regulation; Histone code; Modification web; Network structure; Nucleosome; Signal router

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; EPIGENETICS; EUCHROMATIN; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORY;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; EUCHROMATIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONES; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84881321633     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1381612811319280002     Document Type: Review

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