Epididymal region-specific miRNA expression and DNA methylation and their roles in controlling gene expression in rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Chu, Chen ^a,c   Zheng, Guangyong ^b   Hu, Shuanggang ^a   Zhang, Jinsong ^a   Xie, Shengsong ^a   Ma, Wubin ^a   Ni, Minjie ^a   Tang, Chunhua ^a,c   Zhou, Lu ^b,c   Zhou, Yuchuan ^a   Liu, Mofang ^a   Li, Yixue ^b   Zhang, Yonglian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICRORNA 200; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; LUCIFERASE; MICRORNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPORTER GENE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; LUCIFERASES; MALE; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84930674342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124450     Document Type: Article

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