Xenopus maintenance-type DNA methyltransferase is accumulated and translocated into germinal vesicles of oocytes

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1175-1182

  Kimura, Hironobu ^a   Suetake, Isao ^a   Tajima, Shoji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA methyltransferase; Nuclear localization; Oogenesis; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYL GROUP;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERMINAL VESICLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032775556     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022401     Document Type: Article

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