Lateral Thinking: How Histone Modifications Regulate Gene Expression

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 42-56

  Lawrence, Moyra ^a   Daujat, Sylvain ^a   Schneider, Robert ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Histone; Lateral surface; Modification; Nucleosome; Remodelling; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE; HISTONE H1; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; HISTONE H5; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; SOMATOMEDIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; AMINO ACID; CHROMATIN; NUCLEOSOME;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DEAMINATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUMOYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UBIQUITINYLATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; HISTONES; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN DOMAINS;

EID: 84950349915     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 13624555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2015.10.007     Document Type: Review

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