The maternal to zygotic transition in mammals

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 919-938

  Li, Lei ^a   Lu, Xukun ^a,b   Dean, Jurrien ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Gamete recognition; Histone modification; Maternal effect genes; Maternal to zygotic transition (MZT); Mouse fertilization; Subcortical maternal complex (SCMC); Zygotic genome activation (ZGA)

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCAN; PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; GENOME IMPRINTING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MAMMAL; MATERNAL TO ZYGOTIC TRANSITION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PATERNAL GENOME; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYSPERMY; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; SPERM ZONA RECOGNITION; SUBCORTICAL MATERNAL COMPLEX; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ZP2 GENE; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; ZYGOTE;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84881173034     PISSN: 00982997     EISSN: 18729452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2013.01.003     Document Type: Review

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