Mouse embryos do not wait for the MBT: Chromatin and RNA polymerase remodeling in genome activation at the onset of development

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-42

  Thompson, Eric M ^a   Legouy, Edith ^a   Renard, Jean Paul ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Brahma; High mobility group (HMG) proteins; Histone H4 acetylation; Scaffold attachment regions; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL MATURATION; DNA REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CHROMATIN; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031941277     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1998)22:1<31::AID-DVG4>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Review

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