The necessity of chromatin: A view in perspective

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Pirrotta, Vincenzo ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; HISTONE; NUCLEOSOME; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; RNA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HISTONE CODE; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; NUCLEOSOME; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EPIGENOMICS; HISTONE CODE; HISTONES; METHYLATION; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOSOMES; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84953305747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a019547     Document Type: Article

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