Epigenetic regulation of chromatin states in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1-25

  Allshire, Robin C ^a   Ekwall, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

AUTOANTIGEN; CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; CHROMATIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; NUCLEOSOME; RNA POLYMERASE II; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOSOME; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

AUTOANTIGENS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOSOMES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA POLYMERASE II; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

EID: 84936774364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a018770     Document Type: Article

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