H2A.Z helps genes remember their history so we can remember ours

BioEssays

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 596-601

  Zovkic, Iva B ^a   Walters, Brandon J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

H2A.Z; Histone subunit exchange; Histone variant exchange; Learning; Memory; Poised genes; Transcriptional memory

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; HISTONE H2AZ; HISTONE H2A.F-Z; NUCLEOSOME;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN PROCESSING; STIMULUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTONES; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES;

EID: 84929512030     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201400223     Document Type: Article

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