UBR2 mediates transcriptional silencing during spermatogenesis via histone ubiquitination

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1912-1917

  An, Jee Young ^a   Kim, Eun A ^a   Jiang, Yonghua ^a   Zakrzewska, Adriana ^a   Kim, Dong Eun ^a   Lee, Min Jae ^b   Mook Jung, Inhee ^c   Zhang, Yi ^d   Kwon, Yong Tae ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin inactivation; H2A; Meiosis; N end rule; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; PROTEIN UBR2; RING FINGER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYMES; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; UBIQUITINATION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

MUS;

EID: 76649112438     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910267107     Document Type: Article

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