Sex-specific exons control DNA methyltransferase in mammalian germ cells

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 889-897

  Mertineit, Carmen ^b   Yoder, Jeffrey A ^a   Taketo, Teruko ^c   Laird, Dale W ^d   Trasler, Jacquetta M ^b   Bestor, Timothy H ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternative RNA splicing; DNA methyltransferase; Gametogenesis

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME REGULATION; EXON; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0031889033     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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