Distribution, recognition and regulation of non-CpG methylation in the adult mammalian brain

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 215-222

  Guo, Junjie U ^a,d   Su, Yijing ^a   Shin, Joo Heon ^a   Shin, Jaehoon ^a   Li, Hongda ^b   Xie, Bin ^a   Zhong, Chun ^a   Hu, Shaohui ^a   Le, Thuc ^c   Fan, Guoping ^c   Zhu, Heng ^a   Chang, Qiang ^b   Gao, Yuan ^a   Ming, Guo Li ^a   Song, Hongjun ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; GENOMIC DNA; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN; CPG ISLAND; CPH METHYLATION; DEMETHYLATION; DENTATE GYRUS; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA STRAND; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OLIGODENDROGLIA; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HUMANS; MALE; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84893740377     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3607     Document Type: Article

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