constitutive heterochromatin formation
The compaction of chromatin into heterochromatin, a conformation that is refractory to transcription and in that involves the methylation of histone H3K9. Constitutive heterochromatin cannot be converted back to euchromatin, the transcriptionally-active conformation.
GO:0031507
heterochromatin formation
is_a
constitutive heterochromatin assembly
exact
SPAC1851.03 SPAC222.09 SPBC800.03 SPCC663.12 SPBC83.03c SPCC126.04c SPAC23G3.01 SPAC18G6.02c SPAC140.03 SPBP8B7.19 SPBC2D10.17 SPBC16C6.10 SPBC146.09c SPBC12C2.10c SPAC21E11.03c SPBC3B8.02 SPBC16D10.07c SPBC428.08c SPCC1393.05 SPBC1105.11c SPCC736.11 SPAC4H3.06 SPBC215.12 SPAC29B12.08 SPBC582.04c SPBC29B5.01 SPAC6F12.09 SPBC609.05 SPAC22G7.10 SPBP35G2.10 SPAC3A11.08 SPBC409.07c SPCC613.12c SPBC4B4.09 SPAC139.06 SPAC824.04 SPAC1B3.17 SPAC1783.04c SPBP8B7.28c SPCC306.04c SPCC1739.03 SPAC3G9.04 SPCC188.13c SPCC11E10.08 SPAC664.01c SPCC970.07c SPAC1834.04 SPAC23C11.08 SPAC23E2.02 SPAC24B11.06c SPAC17A2.13c SPBC8D2.04 SPAC13G7.07 SPAC23H4.18c SPCC132.02 SPAC27F1.09c