Endonuclease-sensitive regions of human spermatozoal chromatin are highly enriched in promoter and CTCF binding sequences

Genome Research

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1338-1349

  Arpanahi, Ali ^a   Brinkworth, Martin ^b   Iles, David ^a   Krawetz, Stephen A ^c   Paradowska, Agnieszka ^d   Platts, Adrian E ^c   Saida, Myriam ^a   Steger, Klaus ^d   Tedder, Philip ^a   Miller, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; HISTONE H4; PROTAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PACKAGING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ENDONUCLEASES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYSINE; MALE; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 68149176814     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.094953.109     Document Type: Article

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