Xist localization and function: New insights from multiple levels

Genome Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Cerase, Andrea ^a   Pintacuda, Greta ^b   Tattermusch, Anna ^b   Avner, Philip ^a,c  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; COHESIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN K; LAMIN B; LAMIN B RECEPTOR; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; RETINOBLASTOMA BINDING PROTEIN 4; RETINOBLASTOMA BINDING PROTEIN 7; SAF A PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; XIST NON-CODING RNA;

BINDING SITE; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENE SPREADING; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; XIST GENE; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; MICE; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84939420051     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0733-y     Document Type: Review

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