A downstream CpG island controls transcript initiation and elongation and the methylation state of the imprinted airn macro ncRNA promoter

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Koerner, Martha V ^a,d   Pauler, Florian M ^a   Hudson, Quanah J ^a   Santoro, Federica ^a   Sawicka, Anna ^b   Guenzl, Philipp M ^a   Stricker, Stefan H ^a,e   Schichl, Yvonne M ^a,f   Latos, Paulina A ^a,g   Klement, Ruth M ^a   Warczok, Katarzyna E ^a   Wojciechowski, Jacek ^c   Seiser, Christian ^b   Kralovics, Robert ^a   Barlow, Denise P ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IGF2R PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; IGF2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RNA PRECURSOR; SOMATOMEDIN B; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AIRN GENE; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION; TANDEM DIRECT REPEAT; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE DELETION; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84859254579     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002540     Document Type: Article

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