biological_process Term "chromatin silencing" (GO:0006342)

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biological_process Term "chromatin silencing" (GO:0006342)

Term Name	chromatin silencing
Term Accession	GO:0006342
Aspect	biological_process
Synonyms (6)	chromatin-mediated maintenance of transcriptional inactivation, chromatin-mediated silencing, GO:0016440, heterochromatic silencing, TGS, transcriptional gene silencing
Definition	Repression of transcription by altering the structure of chromatin, e.g. by conversion of large regions of DNA into an inaccessible state often called heterochromatin.
Comment	None
Source Ontology Database	The GO browser of Gene Ontology Database

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Derivation

biological_process (GO:0008150) #8951

[i] metabolic process (GO:0008152) #33238

[i] organic substance metabolic process (GO:0071704) #0

[i] macromolecule metabolic process (GO:0043170) #0

[i] gene expression (GO:0010467) #0

[-r] negative regulation of gene expression (GO:0010629) #11

[i] gene silencing (GO:0016458) #264

[i] chromatin silencing (GO:0006342) #168

[i] chromatin silencing at rDNA (GO:0000183) #2

[p] establishment of chromatin silencing (GO:0006343) #0

[p] maintenance of chromatin silencing (GO:0006344) #13

[i] methylation-dependent chromatin silencing (GO:0006346) #155

[i] chromatin silencing at telomere (GO:0006348) #22

[i] chromatin silencing at silent mating-type cassette (GO:0030466) #10

[i] chromatin silencing at centromere (GO:0030702) #0

[i] chromatin silencing by small RNA (GO:0031048) #126

[r] regulation of chromatin silencing (GO:0031935) #9

[-r] negative regulation of chromatin silencing (GO:0031936) #3

[+r] positive regulation of chromatin silencing (GO:0031937) #0

[p] heterochromatin organization involved in chromatin silencing (GO:0070868) #0

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Database Cross-References (2)

GOC:	mah
PMID:	10219245

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Parents (3)

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Children (12)

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Associations (168)

Arabidopsis thaliana gene (122)

Brachypodium distachyon gene (7)

Brassica rapa gene (9)

Oryza sativa indica gene (4)

Oryza sativa japonica gene (4)

Populus trichocarpa gene (9)

Selaginella moellendorffii gene (1)

Sorghum bicolor gene (5)

Vitis vinifera gene (2)

Zea mays gene (3)

Gramene Gene (2)