Targeted epigenome editing of an endogenous locus with chromatin modifiers is not stably maintained

Epigenetics and Chromatin

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kungulovski, Goran ^a   Nunna, Suneetha ^a   Thomas, Maria ^b,c   Zanger, Ulrich M ^b,c   Reinhardt, Richard ^d   Jeltsch, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b DR MARGARETE FISCHER BOSCH INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d Max Planck Genomzentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; VASCULOTROPIN A; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE DEMETHYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84928040889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17568935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13072-015-0002-z     Document Type: Article

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