An embryonic demethylation mechanism involving binding of transcription factors to replicating DNA

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1446-1453

  Matsuo, Koichi ^a,c   Silke, John ^a,d   Georgiev, Oleg ^a   Marti, Philippe ^b   Giovannini, Natalia ^b   Rungger, Duri ^b  

^a Inst F Molekularbiologie II U   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^d ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bovine papilloma virus (PBV); Gal4 fusion proteins; Sp1; Xenopus embryos; Xenopus oocytes

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMANITIN; ETOPOSIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEMETHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYO; HUMAN; OOCYTE; PAPILLOMA VIRUS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

AMANITINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; BOVINE PAPILLOMAVIRUS 1; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; GLOBINS; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; OOCYTES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; BOVINE PAPILLOMA VIRUS; PAPILLOMAVIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032473428     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.5.1446     Document Type: Article

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