Inactive X chromosome-specific histone H3 modifications and CpG hypomethylation flank a chromatin boundary between an X-inactivated and an escape gene

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 7416-7428

  Goto, Yuji ^a,b   Kimura, Hiroshi ^a,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3 LYSINE 9; HISTONE H4; HISTONE H4 LYSINE 20; PROTEIN RBM10; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; UBIQUITIN LIKE MODIFIER ACTIVATING ENZYME 1; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SILENCER ELEMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLANDS; DIPLOIDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, INTERGENIC; HISTONES; HUMANS; HYBRID CELLS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITIN-ACTIVATING ENZYMES; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 75649095637     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp860     Document Type: Article

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