Active chromatin marks are retained on X chromosomes lacking gene or repeat silencing despite XIST/Xist expression in somatic cell hybrids

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Thorogood, Nancy P ^a   Brown, Carolyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; HISTONE H3; PROTEIN COT 1; PROTEIN XIST; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; COTL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; COTL1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HISTONE; UNTRANSLATED RNA; X (INACTIVE) SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT (XIST); X (INACTIVE)-SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT (XIST);

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE PROBE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; HYBRID CELL; MARKER GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STABLE EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; X CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, X-LINKED; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; HYBRID CELLS; MICE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 77956297514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010787     Document Type: Article

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