Fully-mature antral mouse oocytes are transcriptionally silent but their heterochromatin maintains a transcriptional permissive histone acetylation profile

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1193-1196

  Zuccotti, Maurizio ^a,e   Bellone, Michele ^b   Longo, Frank ^c   Redi, Carlo Alberto ^b,d   Garagna, Silvia ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^e Sezione di Istologia ed Embriologia   (Italy)

^f Lab di Biologia dello Sviluppo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antral oocytes; Chromatin organisation; Histone acetylation; Mouse

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE ACETYLATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; OOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84355166807     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-011-9562-4     Document Type: Article

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