The Dnmt3L ADD Domain Controls Cytosine Methylation Establishment during Spermatogenesis

Cell Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 944-956

  Vlachogiannis, Georgios ^a   Niederhuth, Chad E ^b   Tuna, Salih ^a   Stathopoulou, Athanasia ^a   Viiri, Keijo ^a,d   de Rooij, Dirk G ^c   Jenner, Richard G ^a   Schmitz, Robert J ^b   Ooi, Steen K T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Georgia   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; PROTEIN DNMT3L; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATRX DNMT3 DNMT3L DOMAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; EPIGENETICS; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; RETROPOSON; SPERMATOGENESIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84923103623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.01.021     Document Type: Article

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