Polycomb Group Proteins Ezh2 and Rnf2 Direct Genomic Contraction and Imprinted Repression in Early Mouse Embryos

Developmental Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 668-679

  Terranova, Rémi ^a   Yokobayashi, Shihori ^a   Stadler, Michael B ^a   Otte, Arie P ^b   van Lohuizen, Maarten ^c   Orkin, Stuart H ^d   Peters, Antoine H F M ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

DEVBIO; DNA

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1; PROTEIN EZH2; PROTEIN RNF2; RNA POLYMERASE II; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME IMPRINTING; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; MALE; MICE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 55349100420     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2008.08.015     Document Type: Article

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