Search Ontology:
GO: Biological Process

constitutive heterochromatin formation

Term ID
GO:0140719
Synonyms
  • constitutive heterochromatin assembly
Definition
The compaction of chromatin into heterochromatin, a conformation that is refractory to transcription. Constitutive heterochromatin cannot be converted back to euchromatin, the transcriptionally-active conformation. In metazoa, this involves the methylation of histone H3K9. 17936700
References
Ontology
GO: Biological Process    QuickGO    AmiGO
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Phenotype
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