Histone variant H3.3 provides the heterochromatic H3 lysine 9 tri-methylation mark at telomeres

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 10227-10237

  Udugama, Maheshi ^a   Chang, Fiona T M ^a   Chan, F Lyn ^a   Tang, Michelle C ^b   Pickett, Hilda A ^c   McGhie, James D R ^a   Mayne, Lynne ^a   Collas, Philippe ^d   Mann, Jeffrey R ^a   Wong, Lee H ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3.3; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN ASF1A; PROTEIN ASF1B; PROTEIN ATRX; PROTEIN ESET; PROTEIN KMT1A; PROTEIN KMT1B; PROTEIN KMT1E; PROTEIN SUV39H1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE; LYSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; H3F3A CELL LINE; H3F3B CELL LINE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE METHYLATION; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HISTONE CODE; METABOLISM; METHYLATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA DAMAGE; GENE DELETION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE CODE; HISTONES; LYSINE; METHYLATION; MICE; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84960515464     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv847     Document Type: Article

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