Interplay of chromatin modifications and non-coding RNAs in the heart

Epigenetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 101-112

  Mathiyalagan, Prabhu ^a   Keating, Samuel T ^a   Du, Xiao Jun ^a   El Osta, Assam ^a,b,c  

^a BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiac hypertrophy; Chromatin; Gene regulation; Histone modifications; Long non coding RNA

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; EZH2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84891944202     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.26405     Document Type: Review

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