PRC1 and Suv39h specify parental asymmetry at constitutive heterochromatin in early mouse embryos

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 411-420

  Puschendorf, Mareike ^a   Terranova, Rémi ^a   Boutsma, Erwin ^b   Mao, Xiaohong ^c,f   Isono, Kyo Ichi ^d   Brykczynska, Urszula ^a   Kolb, Carolin ^a   Otte, Arie P ^e   Koseki, Haruhiko ^d   Orkin, Stuart H ^c   Van Lohuizen, Maarten ^b   Peters, Antoine H F M ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; PROTEIN EZH2; PROTEIN POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1; PROTEIN RNF2; SUV 39H ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOMERES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; INTEGRASES; MALE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OOCYTES; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 40849129243     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.99     Document Type: Article

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