Term Information

Accession
GO:0140719
Name
constitutive heterochromatin formation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
constitutive heterochromatin assembly
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The compaction of chromatin into a conformation that is refactory to transcription. Source: PMID:17936700
Comment
Note that constitutive heterochromatin indicates that it usually cannot be reprogrammed to a transcriptionally-competent state, as opposed to facultative heterochromatin, which can be reprogrammed.
History
See term history for GO:0140719 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of constitutive heterochromatin formation (GO:0140719)
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constitutive heterochromatin formation [is_a relation] is_a  heterochromatin formation (GO:0031507)
Children of constitutive heterochromatin formation (GO:0140719)
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subtelomeric heterochromatin formation (GO:0031509) [is_a relation] is_a  constitutive heterochromatin formation
pericentric heterochromatin formation (GO:0031508) [is_a relation] is_a  constitutive heterochromatin formation
silent mating-type cassette heterochromatin formation (GO:0030466) [is_a relation] is_a  constitutive heterochromatin formation
inactivation of X chromosome by heterochromatin formation (GO:0060820) [is_a relation] is_a  constitutive heterochromatin formation
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