The Immediate Early Gene Product EGR1 and Polycomb Group Proteins Interact in Epigenetic Programming during Chondrogenesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Spaapen, Frank ^a   van den Akker, Guus G H ^a   Caron, Marjolein M J ^a   Prickaerts, Peggy ^a   Rofel, Celine ^a   Dahlmans, Vivian E H ^a   Surtel, Don A M ^a   Paulis, Yvette ^a   Schweizer, Finja ^a   Welting, Tim J M ^a   Eijssen, Lars M ^a   Voncken, Jan Willem ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; HISTONE H3; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BMI1 GENE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHONDROGENESIS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; EPIGENETICS; EZH2 GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HISTONE METHYLATION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHONDROCYTES; CHONDROGENESIS; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 1 SUBUNIT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HISTONES; MICE; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84874643048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058083     Document Type: Article

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