Molecular analysis of PRC2 recruitment to DNA in chromatin and its inhibition by RNA

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1028-1038

  Wang, Xueyin ^a   Paucek, Richard D ^a   Gooding, Anne R ^a   Brown, Zachary Z ^b   Ge, Eva J ^b   Muir, Tom W ^b   Cech, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEBP2 PROTEIN; DNA; HISTONE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; RETINOBLASTOMA BINDING PROTEIN 4; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR JARID2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SUZ12; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AEBP2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EZH1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; JARID2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MTF2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL INTERACTION; CG RICH SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CELL LINE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BASE COMPOSITION; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA;

EID: 85036586290     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3487     Document Type: Article

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