An AUTS2-Polycomb complex activates gene expression in the CNS

Nature

Volumn 516, Issue 7531, 2014, Pages 349-354

  Gao, Zhonghua ^a   Lee, Pedro ^a   Stafford, James M ^a   Schimmelmann, Melanie Von ^b   Schaefer, Anne ^b   Reinberg, Danny ^a  

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

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTISM SUSCEPTIBILITY CANDIDATE 2; BMI1 PROTEIN; E1A ASSOCIATED P300 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTS2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; HISTONE; PRC1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; NEUROLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT STATURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; C57BL MOUSE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEK293 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; HEK293 CELLS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEINS; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84922217833     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13921     Document Type: Article

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