A histone H3 lysine 27 demethylase regulates animal posterior development

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7163, 2007, Pages 689-694

  Lan, Fei ^a   Bayliss, Peter E ^b   Rinn, John L ^c   Whetstine, Johnathan R ^a   Wang, Jordon K ^c   Chen, Shuzhen ^a   Iwase, Shigeki ^a   Alpatov, Roman ^a   Issaeva, Irina ^d   Canaani, Eli ^d   Roberts, Thomas M ^b   Chang, Howard Y ^c   Shi, Yang ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMETHYLASE; ENZYME; PROTEIN; PROTEIN JMJD3; PROTEIN UTX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CANCER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; METHYLATION; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; HOX GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN METHYLATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 35148898348     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06192     Document Type: Article

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