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Histone modification and transcriptional repression

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Mechanisms of transcriptional repression -- Corepressor proteins -- Histone modifications involved in repression -- Cancer.…”
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Histone dynamics, heritability and variants

Table of Contents: “…Contents: DNA is organized into chromatin which promotes compaction and brings about additional information -- The histone code hypothesis -- Chromatin dynamics and heritability -- Factors involved in chromatin dynamics -- Nucleosomes disruption and assembly following DNA replication fork passage -- General steps in chromatin assembly -- Histone chaperones and their possible roles (CAF-1, HIRA, ...) -- Histone H3 variants and chromatin assembly coupled or not with DNA synthesis -- Specific histone deposition pathways for each variant? …”
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Series (Epigenetics : concepts, theories, paradigms and mechanisms)
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DNA methylation

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Roles of DNA methylation -- Evolution of eukaryotic DNA methyltransferases -- Mechanism of action of DNA methyltransferases -- Specific loci targeting -- Histone modification -- Small interfering RNA.…”
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Epigenetic information in gene expression and cancer

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Types and functions of histone modifications -- Histone code hypothesis -- Epigenetics and transcription regulation -- Relevance for human disease.…”
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