Active DNA demethylation in human postmitotic cells correlates with activating histone modifications, but not transcription levels

Genome Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Klug, Maja ^a   Heinz, Sven ^b   Gebhard, Claudia ^a   Schwarzfischer, Lucia ^a   Krause, Stefan W ^c   Andreesen, Reinhard ^a   Rehli, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; DENDRITIC CELL; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROPHAGE; MITOSIS; MONOCYTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

MAMMALIA;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DENDRITIC CELLS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MITOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONOCYTES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77953628087     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-6-r63     Document Type: Article

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