Chromatin remodeling by the small rna machinery in mammalian cells

Epigenetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-52

  Li, Long Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Chromatin; Epigenetics; miRNA; RNA activation; Small RNA; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; MAMMALS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84891930123     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.26830     Document Type: Article

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