DNA methylation and methyl-CpG binding proteins: Developmental requirements and function

Chromosoma

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 549-565

  Bogdanović, Ozren ^a   Veenstra, Gert Jan C ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 2; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; KAISO PROTEIN; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 1; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 3; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 4; PROTEIN ZBTB33; PROTEIN ZBTB38; PROTEIN ZBTB4; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DLX5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSFER RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; Y BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1;

AUTOSOMAL DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNODEFICIENCY CENTROMERIC INSTABILITY AND FACIAL ABNORMALITIES SYNDROME; INTESTINE TUMOR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETT SYNDROME; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-CYTOSINE METHYLASES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 69249220176     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-009-0221-9     Document Type: Review

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