Identification of a gene required for de novo DNA methylation of the zebrafish no tail gene

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 233, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1509-1516

  Shimoda, Nobuyoshi ^a,b,c   Yamakoshi, Kimi ^a   Miyake, Akimitsu ^b   Takeda, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Methylation; Methyltransferase; Morpholino oligo (MO); No tail; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 7; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PLASMID DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NO TAIL GENE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 22244454037     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20455     Document Type: Article

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