MicroRNAs control de novo DNA methylation through regulation of transcriptional repressors in mouse embryonic stem cells

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 259-267

  Sinkkonen, Lasse ^a   Hugenschmidt, Tabea ^a   Berninger, Philipp ^b,c   Gaidatzis, Dimos ^b,c   Mohn, Fabio ^a   Artus Revel, Caroline G ^a   Zavolan, Mihaela ^b,c   Svoboda, Petr ^d   Filipowicz, Witold ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLTRANSFERASE; MICRORNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DICER1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; POU5F1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN P130; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO CELL; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICE; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINOBLASTOMA-LIKE PROTEIN P130; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 40949130398     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1391     Document Type: Article

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