SCML2 Establishes the Male Germline Epigenome through Regulation of Histone H2A Ubiquitination

Developmental Cell

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 574-588

  Hasegawa, Kazuteru ^a,b   Sin, Ho Su ^a,b   Maezawa, So ^a,b   Broering, Tyler J ^a,b   Kartashov, Andrey V ^a,b   Alavattam, Kris G ^a,b   Ichijima, Yosuke ^a,b   Zhang, Fan ^a,b   Bacon, W Clark ^a,b   Greis, Kenneth D ^b   Andreassen, Paul R ^a,b   Barski, Artem ^a,b   Namekawa, Satoshi H ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; HISTONE H2A; PROTEIN; SEX COMB ON MIDLEG LIKE 2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DPPA3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HISTONE; MDC1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MESSENGER RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNF2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GERM LINE; HISTONE UBIQUITINATION; MALE; MALE GERMLINE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTIS; UBIQUITINATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELLS; HISTONES; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84924497368     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.01.014     Document Type: Article

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