Cloning, expression and chromosome locations of the human DNMT3 gene family

Gene

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-95

  Xie, Shaoping ^a   Wang, Zhenjuan ^a   Okano, Masaki ^a   Nogami, Masahiro ^b   Li, Yuan ^c   He, Wei Wu ^c   Okumura, Katsuzumi ^b   Li, En ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Fac Bioresources Mie U   (Japan)

^c ORI Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; DNA methyltransferase

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME HISTOCHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CPG ISLANDS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC); TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032769445     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00252-8     Document Type: Article

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