Erasure of the paternal transcription program during spermiogenesis: The first step in the reprogramming of sperm chromatin for zygotic development

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1463-1476

  Zheng, Junke ^a   Xia, Oyu ^a   Ding, Hui ^b   Yan, Ayong ^a   Hu, Shaunggang ^d   Gong, Xun ^a   Zong, Shudong ^c   Zhang, Yonglian ^d   Sheng, Hui Z ^a,e  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^e SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Chromatin factors; Epigenetic; Spermatogenesis; Spermiogenesis; Transcription reprogramming; Transcription silence; Zygotic genome activation (ZGA)

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISSOCIATION; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GERM CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZYGOTE;

EID: 43449110114     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21499     Document Type: Article

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