GO biological process ontology term - GO:0140719 - constitutive heterochromatin formation
Term summary
- ID
- GO:0140719
- Name
- constitutive heterochromatin formation
- Ontology or CV name
- GO biological process
- Definition
- 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.
