Developmentally programmed 3' CpG island methylation confers tissue- and cell-type-specific transcriptional activation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1845-1858

  Yu, Da Hai ^a   Ware, Carol ^b   Waterland, Robert A ^a,c   Zhang, Jiexin ^d   Chen, Miao Hsueh ^a   Gadkari, Manasi ^a   Kunde Ramamoorthy, Govindarajan ^a   Nosavanh, Lagina M ^a   Shen, Lanlan ^a  

^a CHILDREN S NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; METHYLATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84876445686     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01124-12     Document Type: Article

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