Biology 105
Eukaryotic Cell Biology

November 16, 2006 Chromatin

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Required Reading:

Textbook: Alberts et al (2002) Molecular Biology of the Cell. pp. 207-216, 222-226

T. Jenuwein and C.D. Allis (2001) Translating the histone code. Science 293: 1074-1080.

B.A. Leibovitch, Q. Lu, L.R. Benjamin, Y. Liu, D.S. Gilmour and S.C.R. Elgin (2002) GAGA ffactor and the TFIID complex collaborate in generating an open chromatin structure at the Drosophila melanogaster hsp26 promoter. Molec. Cell. Biol. 22: 6148-6157.

R. Allshire (2002) RNAi and heterochromatin - a hushed-up affair. Science 297: 1818-1819.

S.C.R. Elgin and S.I.S. Grewal (2003) Heterochromatin: silence is golden. Curr. Biol. 13: R895-R898.

A. Verdel, S. Jia, S. Gerber, T. Sugiyama, S. Gygi, S.I.S. Grewal and D. Moazed (2004) RNAi-mediated targeting of heterochromatin by the RITS complex. Science 303: 672-676.