The MSL complex: Juggling RNA-protein interactions for dosage compensation and beyond

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 31, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-11

  Keller, Claudia Isabelle ^a   Akhtar, Asifa ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE H4; HISTONE H4 LYSINE 16; MALE SPECIFIC LETHAL COMPLEX; MALE SPECIFIC LETHAL COMPLEX 1; MALE SPECIFIC LETHAL COMPLEX 2; MALE SPECIFIC LETHAL COMPLEX 3; MALES ABSENT ON THE FIRST PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

CELL INTERACTION; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ROX1 GENE; ROX2 GENE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84927755520     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2015.03.007     Document Type: Review

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