Histone macroH2A1 is concentrated in the inactive X chromosome of female preimplantation mouse embryos

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2283-2289

  Costanzi, Carl ^a   Stein, Paula ^a   Worrad, Diane M ^a,b   Schultz, Richard M ^a   Pehrson, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Histone; Preimplantation mouse embryo; X chromosome inactivation

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2A;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE SILENCING; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RAT; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLASTOCYST; CHROMATIN; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HISTONES; HUMANS; MICE; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0034081857     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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