Epigenetic transcriptional memory

Current Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 435-439

  D’Urso, Agustina ^a   Brickner, Jason H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Environmental response; Epigenetics; Histone methylation; Mediator; Memory; Nuclear pore complex; Transcription; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULUS; EPIGENETIC TRANSCRIPTIONAL MEMORY; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STIMULUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; YEAST;

CHROMATIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; YEASTS;

EID: 84994311328     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: 14320983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-016-0661-8     Document Type: Review

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