Plasticity in Dnmt3L-dependent and -independent modes of de novo methylation in the developing mouse embryo

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 562-572

  Guenatri, Mounia ^a   Duffié, Rachel ^a   Iranzo, Julian ^a   Fauque, Patricia ^a   Bourc'his, Déborah ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Early mouse embryo; Gametes

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3L; METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GAMETE; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OOCYTES; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEOLYSIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84872078429     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.089268     Document Type: Article

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