Histone methylation during neural development

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 356, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 539-552

  Roidl, Deborah ^a   Hacker, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin state; Epigenetics; Histone lysine demethylase (KDM); Histone lysine methyltransferase (KMT); Neural development

Indexed keywords

HISTONE DEMETHYLASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE;

CELL RENEWAL; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HISTONES; HUMANS; METHYLATION; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 84902287468     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-014-1842-8     Document Type: Review

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