Antagonism between DNA and H3K27 methylation at the imprinted Rasgrf1 locus

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Lindroth, Anders M ^a   Yoon, Jung Park ^a   McLean, Chelsea M ^a   Dokshin, Gregoriy A ^a   Persson, Jenna M ^a   Herman, Herry ^a,b   Pasini, Diego ^c,d   Miró, Xavier ^e   Donohoe, Mary E ^f   Lee, Jeannie T ^f   Helin, Kristian ^c,d   Soloway, Paul D ^a  

^a Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^b PADJADJARAN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; DNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; HISTONE; LYSINE; RASGRF1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN METHYLATION; RASGRF1 GENE; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; MALE; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MOUSE STRAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONES; LYSINE; MALE; METHYLATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; RAS-GRF1; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 50849107031     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000145     Document Type: Article

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