Epigenetic regulation of cellular memory by the polycomb and trithorax group proteins

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue , 2004, Pages 413-443

  Ringrose, Leonie ^a   Paro, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activation; Chromatin; PcG; Silencing; TrxG

Indexed keywords

POLYCOMB PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TRITHORAX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER INHIBITION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATIN; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL DIVISION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MAMMALS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 8844265508     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.38.072902.091907     Document Type: Review

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