Sex-specific windows for high mRNA expression of DNA methyltransferases 1 and 3A and methyl-CpG-binding domain proteins 2 and 4 in human fetal gonads

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 233-241

  Galetzka, Danuta ^a   Weis, Eva ^a   Tralau, Tim ^b   Seidmann, Larissa ^a   Haaf, Thomas ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNMT1; DNMT3A; Epigenetic reprogramming; Fetal germ line; MBD2; MBD4

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; GENOMIC DNA; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; METHYL CPG BINDING DOMAIN PROTEIN 4; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; PROTEIN DNMT3A1; PROTEIN DNMT3A2; PROTEIN DNMT3A3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; ENZYME INACTIVATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONAD; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METHYLATION; MITOSIS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OOCYTE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE NORTHERN BLOTTING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33846015859     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20615     Document Type: Article

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