Loss of YY1 impacts the heterochromatic state and meiotic double-strand breaks during mouse spermatogenesis

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 6245-6256

  Wu, Su ^a,b   Hu, Yueh Chiang ^b,c   Liu, Huifei ^a   Shi, Yang ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE H2AX; RAD51 PROTEIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YY1;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEPTOTENE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; ZYGOTENE;

ANIMALS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; YY1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 71949101856     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00679-09     Document Type: Article

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