A multistep epigenetic switch enables the stable inheritance of DNA methylation states

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 269-275

  Lim, Han N ^a,b   Van Oudenaarden, Alexander ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC STABILITY; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA METHYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, SWITCH; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33846561583     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1956     Document Type: Article

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