What are memories made of? How polycomb and trithorax proteins mediate epigenetic memory

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 340-356

  Steffen, Philipp A ^a   Ringrose, Leonie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TRITHORAX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY; CELL LINE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; LARVA; MITOSIS; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS;

EID: 84899482505     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3789     Document Type: Review

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