Epigenetics and Chromatin E-Book

• Herausgeber: Springer Berlin
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2005

Beschreibung

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.