Interactions with RNA direct the polycomb group protein SCML2 to chromatin where it represses target genes

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Bonasio, Roberto ^a,d   Lecona, Emilio ^a,e   Narendra, Varun ^a   Voigt, Philipp ^a   Parisi, Fabio ^b,c   Kluger, Yuval ^b,c   Reinberg, Danny ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DENSITOMETRY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; DYNAMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 84904061720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02637     Document Type: Article

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