Transcriptional read-through is not sufficient to induce an epigenetic switch In the silencing activity of Polycomb response elements

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 48, 2015, Pages 14930-14935

  Erokhin, Maksim ^a   Elizar'ev, Pavel ^a   Parshikov, Aleksander ^a   Schedl, Paul ^a,b   Georgiev, Pavel ^a   Chetverina, Darya ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bithorax; Chromatin silencing; Intergenic transcription; Polycomb; Trithorax

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; BMI1 PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; POLYCOMB PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRITHORAX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84948650277     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1515276112     Document Type: Article

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