X inactivation: Tsix and Xist as yin and yang

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 24, 2000, Pages

  Mlynarczyk, Susanna K ^a   Panning, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE GENE; GENOME IMPRINTING; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0034649647     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00847-2     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. Genetic analysis of the mouse X inactivation center defines an 80-kb multifunction domain
2. RNA and the epigenetic regulation of X chromosome inactivation
3. Requirement for Xist in X chromosome inactivation
4. A shift from reversible to irreversible X inactivation is triggered during ES cell differentiation
5. Tsix, a gene antisense to Xist at the X-inactivation center
6. Targeted mutagenesis of Tsix leads to nonrandom X inactivation
7. Disruption of imprinted X-inactivation by parent-of-origin effects at Tsix
8. Specific interference with gene function by double-stranded RNA in early mouse development
9. The uniqueness of the imprinting mechanism
10. X chromosome inactivation is mediated by Xist RNA stabilization
11. Role of the region 3′ to Xist exon 6 in the counting process of X-chromosome inactivation
12. Xist has properties of the X-chromosome inactivation centre
13. Role of the Xist gene in X chromosome choosing
14. X-chromosome inactivation in mammals
15. Xist expression from the maternal X chromosome in human male preimplantation embryos at the blastocyst stage
16. Stabilization of Xist RNA mediates initiation of X chromosome inactivation