OCT4 establishes and maintains nucleosome-depleted regions that provide additional layers of epigenetic regulation of its target genes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 35, 2011, Pages 14497-14502

  You, Jueng Soo ^a   Kelly, Theresa K ^a   De Carvalho, Daniel D ^a   Taberlay, Phillippa C ^a   Liang, Gangning ^a   Jones, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOMATIC CELL;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3;

EID: 80052284848     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111309108     Document Type: Article

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