The zinc-finger protein basonuclin 2 is required for proper mitotic arrest, Prevention of premature meiotic initiation and meiotic progression in mouse male germ cells

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 141, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 4298-4310

  Vanhoutteghem, Amandine ^a   Messiaen, SéBastien ^b   Hervé, Françoise ^a   Delhomme, Brigitte ^a   Moison, Delphine ^b   Petit, Jean Maurice ^b   Rouiller Fabre, Virginie ^b   Livera, Gabriel ^b   Djian, Philippe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

BNC2; Gonocytes; Mouse; Spermatogonia

Indexed keywords

BASONUCLIN; BASONUCLIN 2; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASONUCLIN 2, MOUSE; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNMT3L PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SYCP3 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL MATURATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROPHASE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOSIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA;

EID: 84908429135     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.112888     Document Type: Article

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