Epigenetic regulation of cytomegalovirus major immediate-early promoter activity in transgenic mice

Gene

Volumn 428, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 20-24

  Mehta, Abhishek Kumar ^a   Majumdar, Subeer S ^b   Alam, Parwez ^a   Gulati, Neerja ^b   Brahmachari, Vani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Histone methylation; Integration site; MeCP2; Position effect; Transgene silencing

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA METHYLATION; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE SILENCING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CPG ISLANDS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENE SILENCING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONES; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; KIDNEY; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRUS REPLICATION;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 56949090665     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.09.033     Document Type: Article

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