Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Epigenetics Program, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Smilow Center for Translational Research, Philadelphia, PA, USA. zaret@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
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D002843
Chromatin
The material of CHROMOSOMES. It is a complex of DNA; HISTONES; and nonhistone proteins (CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE) found within the nucleus of a cell.
Chromatins
D042002
Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly
The mechanisms effecting establishment, maintenance, and modification of that specific physical conformation of CHROMATIN determining the transcriptional accessibility or inaccessibility of the DNA.
A genetic process by which the adult organism is realized via mechanisms that lead to the restriction in the possible fates of cells, eventually leading to their differentiated state. Mechanisms involved cause heritable changes to cells without changes to DNA sequence such as DNA METHYLATION; HISTONE modification; DNA REPLICATION TIMING; NUCLEOSOME positioning; and heterochromatization which result in selective gene expression or repression.