Dynamic epigenetic control of highly conserved noncoding elements

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Seridi, Loqmane ^a   Ryu, Taewoo ^a   Ravasi, Timothy ^a,b  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOMER; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HISTONE; NUCLEOSOME;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL LEVEL; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGHLY CONSERVED NONCODING ELEMENT; HISTONE MODIFICATION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; CHEMISTRY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MATRIX; NUCLEOSOMES; REPLICATION ORIGIN;

EID: 84907733721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109326     Document Type: Article

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