Polycomblike 2 facilitates the recruitment of PRC2 Polycomb group complexes to the inactive X chromosome and to target loci in embryonic stem cells

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1471-1482

  Casanova, Miguel ^a   Preissner, Tanja ^a   Cerase, Andrea ^a   Poot, Raymond ^b   Yamada, Daisuke ^c   Li, Xiangzhi ^c   Appanah, Ruth ^a   Bezstarosti, Karel ^b   Demmers, Jeroen ^b   Koseki, Haruhiko ^c   Brockdorff, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

ES cell; Mouse; Polycomb; X inactivation

Indexed keywords

POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; POLYCOMBLIKE 2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICE; PREGNANCY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; X CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79955441928     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.053652     Document Type: Article

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