Analysis of active chromatin modifications in early mammalian embryos reveals uncoupling of H2A.Z acetylation and H3K36 trimethylation from embryonic genome activation

Epigenetics

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 747-757

  Bošković, Ana ^a   Bender, Ambre ^a   Gall, Laurence ^b   Ziegler Birling, Céline ^a   Beaujean, Nathalie ^b,c   Torres Padilla, Maria Elena ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^c ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Histone modifications; Histone variants; Mammalian embryo

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2AZ; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3K36; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC GENOME ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENOME; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE TRIMETHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 84863790414     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.20584     Document Type: Article

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