Crosstalk between DNA and histones: Tet's new role in embryonic stem cells

Current Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 603-608

  Sui, Xinyi ^a   Price, Colles ^a   Li, Zejuan ^a   Chen, Jianjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

5hmC; 5mC; DNA modification; Epigenetics; ES cells; Histone modification; Polycomb repressive complex; Tet

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; TEN ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION PROTEIN; TEN ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION PROTEIN 1; TEN ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DEMETHYLATION; DNA HISTONE INTERACTION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL;

EID: 84870185931     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: 18755488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920212803759730     Document Type: Article

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