DNA methylation at promoter regions regulates the timing of gene activation in Xenopus laevis embryos

Developmental Biology

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 155-165

  Stancheva, Irina ^a   El Maarri, Osman ^b   Walter, Joern ^c   Niveleau, Alain ^d   Meehan, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Demethylation; Development; XDnmt1; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; FERTILIZATION; GASTRULATION; GENE ACTIVATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0036499523     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0560     Document Type: Article

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