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Epigenetics and Chromatin

By Professor Dr. Philippe Jeanteur (eds.) , Patrick Varga-Weisz (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2005
ISBN
978-3-540-23372-5, 978-3-540-27310-3
DOI
10.1007/b138907
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7343638 bytes)
Series
Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology 38
Edition
1
Pages
266\274
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Cell Biology; Biochemistrygeneral; Evolutionary Biology; Developmental Biolo

Description

Epigenetics refers to heritable patterns of gene expression which do not depend on alterations of genomic DNA sequence. This book provides a state-of-the-art account of a few selected hot spots by scientists at the edge in this extremely active field. It puts special emphasis on two main streams of research. One is the role of post-translational modifications of proteins, mostly histones, on chromatin structure and accessibility. The other one deals with parental genomic imprinting, a process which allows to express a few selected genes from only one of the parental allele while extinguishing the other.

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