An epigenetic mechanism regulates germ cell-specific expression of the porcine Deleted in Azoospermia-Like (DAZL) gene

Differentiation

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 335-349

  Linher, Katja ^a   Cheung, Queenie ^a   Baker, Perrin ^a   Bedecarrats, Gregoy ^a   Shiota, Kunio ^b   Li, Julang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell specific expression; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Germ cell promoter

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DELETED IN AZOOSPERMIA LIKE GENE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FETUS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SOMATIC CELL;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SWINE;

SUS;

EID: 61649125853     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: 14320436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diff.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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