DNA Methylation of Specific CpG Sites in the Promoter Region Regulates the Transcription of the Mouse Oxytocin Receptor

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Mamrut, Shimrat ^a   Harony, Hala ^a   Sood, Rapita ^a   Shahar Gold, Hadar ^a   Gainer, Harold ^b   Shi, Yi Jun ^b   Barki Harrington, Liza ^a   Wagner, Shlomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMARY GLAND; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR GENE; PROMOTER REGION; RECEPTOR GENE; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENES, REPORTER; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84874134580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056869     Document Type: Article

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