Chromatin accessibility at a STAT3 target site is altered prior to astrocyte differentiation

Cell Structure and Function

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-66

  Urayama, Satoshi ^a,b   Semi, Katsunori ^a   Sanosaka, Tsukasa ^a   Hori, Yukina ^a   Namihira, Masakazu ^a   Kohyama, Jun ^a,c   Takizawa, Takumi ^a,d   Nakashima, Kinichi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Chromatin; Cytokine; STAT; Transcription

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; NUCLEAR FACTOR; PROTEIN NF 1A; STAT3 PROTEIN; SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GFAP GENE; HISTONE METHYLATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOCS3 GENE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; JUMONJI DOMAIN-CONTAINING HISTONE DEMETHYLASES; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84876498905     PISSN: 03867196     EISSN: 13473700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1247/csf.12034     Document Type: Article

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