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X chromosome inactivation
Physiology:
- X chromosome inactivation in females (epigenetic event)
- enzymatic facilitation by
- E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase RING1
- E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase RING2
- transcription repressor CTCF may participate in formation of an epigenetic switch for X chromosome inactivation
- histone proteins with role in facilitation
- histone H2A type 1-A
- histone H2A type 1-C
- histone H2A type 1-D
- histone H2A 1-H
- histone H2A type 2-A
- histone H2A type 2-B
- histone H2A type 2-C
- histone H2A type 3
- histone H2A type 1
- histone H2A type 1-B/E
- histone H2A type 1-J
- core histone macro-H2A.1
- core histone macro-H2A.2
- KDM6A escapes X chromosome inactivation
Related
dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome (GO:0009048)
human X-chromosome
General
cytogenetics
References
Loinc