Chromatin topology is coupled to Polycomb group protein subnuclear organization

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wani, Ajazul H ^a,b,h   Boettiger, Alistair N ^c,d,e   Schorderet, Patrick ^a,b   Ergun, Ayla ^a   Munger, Christine ^f,i   Sadreyev, Ruslan I ^a   Zhuang, Xiaowei ^c,d,e   Kingston, Robert E ^a,b   Francis, Nicole J ^f,g  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR   (India)

ⁱ IniXium Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYMER; BMI1 PROTEIN; CHROMATIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; POLYHOMEOTIC PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; METAZOAN; POLYMER; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN; TOPOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SIMULATION; STERILE ALPHA MOTIF; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; INTRANUCLEAR SPACE; METABOLISM; MICROSCOPY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

METAZOA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; INTRANUCLEAR SPACE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; OPTICAL IMAGING; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS; POLYMERS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84955121651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10291     Document Type: Article

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