Proviral silencing in embryonic stem cells requires the histone methyltransferase ESET

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7290, 2010, Pages 927-931

  Matsui, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Leung, Danny ^c   Miyashita, Hiroki ^a,b   Maksakova, Irina A ^c   Miyachi, Hitoshi ^a   Kimura, Hiroshi ^d   Tachibana, Makoto ^a,b   Lorincz, Matthew C ^c   Shinkai, Yoichi ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE ESET; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; PROTEIN; RODENT;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SILENCING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FIBROBLASTS; GENE DELETION; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; MICE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; PROVIRUSES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

GAMMARETROVIRUS; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 77950862656     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08858     Document Type: Article

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