Dicer-deficient mouse embryonic stem cells are defective in differentiation and centromeric silencing

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 489-501

  Kanellopoulou, Chryssa ^a   Muljo, Stefan A ^a   Kung, Andrew L ^a   Ganesan, Shridar ^a   Drapkin, Ronny ^a   Jenuwein, Thomas ^b   Livingston, David M ^a   Rajewsky, Klaus ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Heterochromatin silencing; MicroRNA; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MUTANT; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOUSE; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TETRAHYMENA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTROMERE; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE SILENCING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, NUDE; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA; STEM CELLS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; NEUROSPORA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 13844294261     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1248505     Document Type: Article

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