Structural basis for targeting the chromatin repressor Sfmbt to Polycomb response elements

Genes and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 2367-2379

  Alfieri, Claudio ^a   Gambetta, Maria Cristina ^b   Matos, Raquel ^a   Glatt, Sebastian ^a   Sehr, Peter ^a   Fraterman, Sven ^a   Wilm, Matthias ^a   Müller, Jürg ^b   Müller, Christoph W ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pho; PhoRC; Polycomb; Polycomb response element; Sfmbt; YY1

Indexed keywords

POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

PHO; PHORC; POLYCOMB; POLYCOMB RESPONSE ELEMENT; SFMBT; YY1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; YY1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84887057545     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.226621.113     Document Type: Article

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