Expression of BLIMP1/PRMT5 and concurrent histone H2A/H4 arginine 3 dimethylation in fetal germ cells, CIS/IGCNU and germ cell tumors

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Eckert, Dawid ^a   Biermann, Katharina ^a   Nettersheim, Daniel ^a   Gillis, Ad J M ^d   Steger, Klaus ^b   Jäck, Hans Martin ^c   Müller, Annette M ^a   Looijenga, Leendert H J ^d   Schorle, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d JOSEPHINE NEFKENS INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H4; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARGININE; HISTONE; PRDM1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PRMT5 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; FETUS; FETUS CELL; GERM CELL TUMOR; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOUSE; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SEMINOMA; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TESTIS; TESTIS TUMOR; TUMOR CELL LINE;

MURINAE;

ARGININE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FEMALE; FETUS; GERM CELLS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLATION; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS;

EID: 58149277374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-8-106     Document Type: Article

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