Suv4-20h Histone Methyltransferases Promote Neuroectodermal Differentiation by Silencing the Pluripotency-Associated Oct-25 Gene

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nicetto, Dario ^a   Hahn, Matthias ^a   Jung, Julia ^b   Schneider, Tobias D ^a   Straub, Tobias ^a   David, Robert ^b,c   Schotta, Gunnar ^a   Rupp, Ralph A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H4; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE SUV4 20H; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 25; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOID BODY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPISTASIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; OCT25 GENE; PLEIOTROPY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; NEURAL PLATE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 84873510342     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003188     Document Type: Article

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