Footprinting of mammalian promoters: Use of a CpG DNA methyltransferase revealing nucleosome positions at a single molecule level

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2005, Pages

  Fatemi, Mehrnaz ^a   Pao, Martha M ^a   Jeong, Shinwu ^a   Gal Yam, Einav Nili ^a   Egger, Gerda ^a   Weisenberger, Daniel J ^a   Jones, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN P16;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA FOOTPRINTING; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; METHYLATION; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TECHNIQUE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA METHYLATION; GENES, P16; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC); TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 29144435153     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gni180     Document Type: Article

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