The recently identified modifier of murine metastable epialleles, Rearranged L-Myc Fusion, is involved in maintaining epigenetic marks at CpG island shores and enhancers

BMC Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Harten, Sarah K ^a   Oey, Harald ^b   Bourke, Lauren M ^a,c   Bharti, Vandhana ^a   Isbel, Luke ^b   Daxinger, Lucia ^b,e   Faou, Pierre ^b   Robertson, Neil ^d   Matthews, Jacqueline M ^d   Whitelaw, Emma ^b  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bisulphite; DNA methylation; Enhancers; Rearranged L Myc Fusion; Rlf

Indexed keywords

MURINAE; MUS;

CHROMATIN; DNA; HISTONE; LYSINE; PROTEIN BINDING; RGL2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYOLOGY; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; LIVER; METABOLISM; MODIFIER GENE; MOUSE; MUTATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, MODIFIER; GENETIC LOCI; HEK293 CELLS; HISTONES; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LIVER; LYSINE; MICE; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84925852266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-015-0128-2     Document Type: Article

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