Lsh is required for meiotic chromosome synapsis and retrotransposon silencing in female germ cells

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1448-1454

  De La Fuente, Rabindranath ^a   Baumann, Claudia ^a   Fan, Tao ^b   Schmidtmann, Anja ^b   Dobrinski, Ina ^a   Muegge, Kathrin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; HISTONE H2AX; LYMPHOID SPECIFIC HELICASE; RAD51 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC STABILITY; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETROPOSON; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA HELICASES; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MICE; OOCYTES; OVARY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; X CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 33751523649     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1513     Document Type: Article

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