Epigenetic deregulation of the human Oct4 promoter in mouse cells

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 218, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 561-566

  Cha, Young ^a   Sung, Min Kyung ^a   Jung, Kyung Won ^a   Kim, Hwan Hee ^b   Lee, Su Man ^b   Park, Kyung Soon ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Department of Biochemistry   (South Korea)

Author keywords

BAC plasmid; CpG methylation; Embryonic stem cell; Oct4 promoter

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; RETINOIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 54049151505     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-008-0253-9     Document Type: Article

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