Noisy silence: Non-coding RNA and heterochromatin formation at repetitive elements

Epigenetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 53-61

  Bierhoff, Holger ^a   Postepska Igielska, Anna ^a   Grummt, Ingrid ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Centromeres; Heterochromatin; Non coding RNA; rDNA; Repetitive elements; Retrotransposons; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; UNTRANSLATED RNA; HETEROCHROMATIN; RETROPOSON;

CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; RNA GENE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENES, RRNA; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TELOMERE;

EID: 84891915662     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.26485     Document Type: Review

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