Centromeric histone H2B monoubiquitination promotes noncoding transcription and chromatin integrity

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 236-243

  Sadeghi, Laia ^a   Lee, Siggens ^a   Svensson, J Peter ^a   Ekwall, Karl ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE UBIQUITINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

CELL CYCLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84895879913     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2776     Document Type: Article

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