Allele-specific H3K79 di- versus trimethylation distinguishes opposite parental alleles at imprinted regions

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2693-2707

  Singh, Purnima ^a   Han, Li ^a,c   Rivas, Guillermo E ^a   Lee, Dong Hoon ^a   Nicholson, Thomas B ^b   Larson, Garrett P ^a   Chen, Taiping ^b   Szabó, Piroska E ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3K79ME1; HISTONE H3K79ME2; HISTONE H4; HISTONE H4K91AC; IGF2 PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; EMBRYO; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METHYLATION;

ACETYLATION; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CPG ISLANDS; FIBROBLASTS; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONE CODE; HISTONES; HUMANS; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 77952602314     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01537-09     Document Type: Article

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