Targeting Polycomb to Pericentric Heterochromatin in Embryonic Stem Cells Reveals a Role for H2AK119u1 in PRC2 Recruitment

Cell Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1456-1470

  Cooper, Sarah ^a   Dienstbier, Martin ^b   Hassan, Raihann ^a   Schermelleh, Lothar ^a   Sharif, Jafar ^c   Blackledge, NeilP ^a   DeMarco, Valeria ^d   Elderkin, Sarah ^e   Koseki, Haruhiko ^c   Klose, Robert ^a   Heger, Andreas ^b   Brockdorff, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2A LYSINE 119; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3 LYSINE 27; HYBRID PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXON; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE UBIQUITINATION; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RING FINGER MOTIF; RNA INTERFERENCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; UBIQUITINATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; EPIGENETICS; HISTONE METHYLATION; PERICENTRIC HETEROCHROMATIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; UBIQUITINATION;

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EID: 84902333500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.04.012     Document Type: Article

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