Kcnq1ot1 Antisense Noncoding RNA Mediates Lineage-Specific Transcriptional Silencing through Chromatin-Level Regulation

Molecular Cell

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 232-246

  Pandey, Radha Raman ^a   Mondal, Tanmoy ^a   Mohammad, Faizaan ^a   Enroth, Stefan ^b   Redrup, Lisa ^c   Komorowski, Jan ^b   Nagano, Takashi ^c   Mancini DiNardo, Debora ^d   Kanduri, Chandrasekhar ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d Myriad Genetic Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

DEVBIO; DNA; RNA

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS LIVER; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC STABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; KCNQ1OT1 GENE; NUCLEOLUS; PLACENTA; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SILENCER ELEMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENE SILENCING; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; MICE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA STABILITY; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 54049138948     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.08.022     Document Type: Article

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