A strand-specific switch in noncoding transcription switches the function of a Polycomb/Trithorax response element

Nature Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 973-981

  Herzog, Veronika A ^a   Lempradl, Adelheid ^a,b   Trupke, Johanna ^a   Okulski, Helena ^a   Altmutter, Christina ^a   Ruge, Frank ^a   Boidol, Bernd ^c   Kubicek, Stefan ^c   Schmauss, Gerald ^d   Aumayr, Karin ^d   Ruf, Marius ^b   Pospisilik, Andrew ^b   Dimond, Andrew ^a,e   Senergin, Hasene Basak ^a   Vargas, Marcus L ^f   Simon, Jeffrey A ^f   Ringrose, Leonie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^e BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNTRANSLATED RNA; CHROMATIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; PRC2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRITHORAX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; POLYCOMB RESPONSE ELEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REPORTER GENE; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRITHORAX RESPONSE ELEMENTS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; INSECT GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATOR GENE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, SWITCH; GENOME, INSECT; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84938310296     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3058     Document Type: Article

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