Reduction of hox gene expression by histone H1 depletion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Yunzhe ^a   Liu, Zheng ^a,b   Medrzycki, Magdalena ^a   Cao, Kaixiang ^a   Fan, Yuhong ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF RADIATION MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H1; HISTONE H1C; HISTONE H1D; HISTONE H1E; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3K27; HISTONE H3K4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HISTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HOX GENE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PROTEIN DEPLETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EMBRYOID BODY; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOMEOBOX; KARYOTYPING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY PATTERNING; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EMBRYOID BODIES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HISTONES; KARYOTYPING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84862204640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038829     Document Type: Article

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