Conditional Inactivation of Upstream Binding Factor Reveals Its Epigenetic Functions and the Existence of a Somatic Nucleolar Precursor Body

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Hamdane, Nourdine ^a,b   Stefanovsky, Victor Y ^a,b   Tremblay, Michel G ^a,b   Németh, Attila ^c   Paquet, Eric ^a   Lessard, Frédéric ^a,b,f   Sanij, Elaine ^d,e   Hannan, Ross ^d,e   Moss, Tom ^a,b  

^a Université Laval   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; HISTONE H1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN RRN3; RIBOSOME RNA; SL1 PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TIF1A PROTEIN; TIF1B PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHROMATIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B PROTEIN; HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR UBF;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATIN CONFORMATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MORULA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; RNA GENE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SOMATIC NUCLEOLAR PRECURSOR BODY; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NUCLEOLUS; RIBOSOME;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONES; HMGB PROTEINS; MICE; OOCYTES; POL1 TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION COMPLEX PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84922377496     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004505     Document Type: Article

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