The quest for mammalian Polycomb response elements: are we there yet?

Chromosoma

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 471-496

  Bauer, Moritz ^a   Trupke, Johanna ^a,b   Ringrose, Leonie ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Epigenetics; Mammal; Polycomb; Polycomb response element; Trithorax

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; PCG PROTEIN; TRXG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; BMI1 PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HISTONE; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRITHORAX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ASSAY; CPG ISLAND; DIPTERA; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; HOX GENE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; POLYCOMB RESPONSE ELEMENT; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HISTONES; HUMANS; MICE; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84944538639     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-015-0539-4     Document Type: Review

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