Antisense transcription occurs at the promoter of a mouse imprinted gene, commd1, on the repressed paternal allele

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 146, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 771-774

  Joh, Keiichiro ^a   Yatsuki, Hitomi ^a   Higashimoto, Ken ^a   Mukai, Tsunehiro ^b   Soejima, Hidenobu ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Genomic imprinting; Histone modification

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; HISTONE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DNA, ANTISENSE; GENES, Y-LINKED; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 71949108845     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: 17562651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvp147     Document Type: Article

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