tRNA genes protect a reporter gene from epigenetic silencing in mouse cells

Cell Cycle

Volumn 10, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2779-2791

  Ebersole, Thomas ^a,d   Kim, Jung Hyun ^a   Samoshkin, Alexander ^a   Kouprina, Natalay ^a   Pavlicek, Adam ^b   White, Robert J ^c   Larionov, Vladimir ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c BEATSON INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier elements; Pol III transcribed genes; tRNA genes

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTERGENERIC HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 80051751605     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.10.16.17092     Document Type: Article

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