Lineage-Specific Polycomb Targets and De Novo DNA Methylation Define Restriction and Potential of Neuronal Progenitors

Molecular Cell

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 755-766

  Mohn, Fabio ^a   Weber, Michael ^a   Rebhan, Michael ^a   Roloff, Tim C ^a   Richter, Jens ^b   Stadler, Michael B ^a   Bibel, Miriam ^b   Schübeler, Dirk ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

DNA; STEMCELL

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GERM LINE; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; DNA METHYLATION; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

MURINAE;

EID: 51649129596     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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