SSTY proteins co-localize with the post-meiotic sex chromatin and interact with regulators of its expression

FEBS Journal

Volumn 281, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1571-1584

  Comptour, Aurélie ^a,b,c,e   Moretti, Charlotte ^a,b,c   Serrentino, Maria Elisabetta ^a,b,c   Auer, Jana ^a,b,c   Ialy Radio, Côme ^a,b,c   Ward, Monika A ^d   Touré, Aminata ^a,b,c   Vaiman, Daniel ^a,b,c   Cocquet, Julie ^a,b,c  

^a Faculté de Médecine Hôpital Cochin Institut Cochin ^*  (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

chromatin; germ cells; intra genomic conflict; sex chromosomes; spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; GERM CELLS; INTRA-GENOMIC CONFLICT; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPERMATOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX CHROMATIN; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84899448905     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.12724     Document Type: Article

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