A Genetic Approach to the Recruitment of PRC2 at the HoxD Locus

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Schorderet, Patrick ^a,b   Lonfat, Nicolas ^b   Darbellay, Fabrice ^a,b   Tschopp, Patrick ^a,c,d   Gitto, Sandra ^a,c   Soshnikova, Natalia ^a,b,e   Duboule, Denis ^a,b,c  

^a National Research Center Frontiers in Genetics   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY IMB   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TARGETING; HOXD GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMATIN; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RESPONSE ELEMENTS;

EID: 84888242412     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003951     Document Type: Article

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