Targeting Polycomb systems to regulate gene expression: Modifications to a complex story

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 643-649

  Blackledge, Neil P ^a   Rose, Nathan R ^a   Klose, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CHROMATIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; PRC1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLAND; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLANDS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; MICE; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84945452552     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm4067     Document Type: Article

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