The A-repeat links ASF/SF2-dependent Xist RNA processing with random choice during X inactivation

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 948-954

  Royce Tolland, Morgan E ^a   Andersen, Angela A ^b   Koyfman, Hannah R ^a   Talbot, Dale J ^a   Wutz, Anton ^c   Tonks, Ian D ^d   Kay, Graham F ^d   Panning, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HISTONE H3; RNA;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; WILD TYPE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77955418467     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1877     Document Type: Article

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