Chromatin remodeling and bivalent histone modifications in embryonic stem cells

EMBO Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1609-1619

  Harikumar, Arigela ^a   Meshorer, Eran ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

chromatin; chromatin remodeling; embryonic stem cells; epigenetics; histone modifications

Indexed keywords

BRAHMA ASSOCIATED FACTOR COMPLEX ASSOCIATED WITH EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HISTONE H3; INOSITOL REQUIRING 80; METHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOSOME REMODELING DEACETYLASE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HISTONE; LYSINE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HISTONE CODE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONE CODE; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYSINE; METHYLATION; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84954371225     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201541011     Document Type: Review

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