The ghosts in the machine: DNA methylation and the mystery of differentiation

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1819, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 757-762

  Briones, Victorino ^a   Muegge, Kathrin ^a  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Embryogenesis; SNF2

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; HELICASE; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; LYMPHOID SPECIFIC HELICASE; MYC PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER GROWTH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CPG ISLAND; DNA BINDING; DNA HISTONE INTERACTION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOSINE; DNA HELICASES; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861872488     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2012.02.013     Document Type: Review

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