The Msx1 homeoprotein recruits G9a methyltransferase to repressed target genes in myoblast cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Jingqiang ^a   Abate Shen, Cory ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G9A HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3K9ME; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENOMICS; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATOR GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA METHYLATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; JUMONJI DOMAIN-CONTAINING HISTONE DEMETHYLASES; MICE; MSX1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MYOBLASTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84861302932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037647     Document Type: Article

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