Targeting of De novo DNA methylation throughout the Oct-4 gene regulatory region in differentiating embryonic stem cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Athanasiadou, Rodoniki ^a,b   de Sousa, Dina ^a   Myant, Kevin ^a   Merusi, Cara ^a   Stancheva, Irina ^a   Bird, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSINE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CPG ISLAND; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; MICE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 77956320061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009937     Document Type: Article

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