PGC7/Stella protects against DNA demethylation in early embryogenesis

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-71

  Nakamura, Toshinobu ^a   Arai, Yoshikazu ^b   Umehara, Hiroki ^c   Masuhara, Masaaki ^c   Kimura, Tohru ^a   Taniguchi, Hisaaki ^d   Sekimoto, Toshihiro ^a   Ikawa, Masahito ^e   Yoneda, Yoshihiro ^a   Okabe, Masaru ^e   Tanaka, Satoshi ^b   Shiota, Kunio ^b   Nakano, Toru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c MEIKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN STELLA; RAN BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33845885282     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1519     Document Type: Article

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