Mice doubly deficient for the polycomb group genes Mel18 and Bmi1 reveal synergy and requirement for maintenance but not initiation of Hox gene expression

Development

Volumn 128, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1587-1597

  Akasaka, T ^a   van Lohuizen, M ^a   van der Lugt, N ^a   Mizutani Koseki, Y ^a   Kanno, M ^a   Taniguchi, M ^a   Vidal, M ^a   Alkema, M ^a   Berns, A ^a   Koseki, H ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bmi1; Hox; Mel18; Mouse; Polycomb

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOSS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MAMMAL; METAZOON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETON;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0034992693     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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