DNA methylation restrains transposons from adopting a chromatin signature permissive for meiotic recombination

Genes and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1256-1270

  Zamudio, Natasha ^a,b   Barau, Joan ^a,b   Teissandier, Aurélie ^a,b,c,d   Walter, Marius ^a,b   Borsos, Maté ^a,b   Servant, Nicolas ^c,d   Bourc'his, Déborah ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin; DNA methylation; Fertility; Germ cells; Meiosis; Transposons

Indexed keywords

DNA; SPO11 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CHROMATIN; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNMT3L PROTEIN, MOUSE; HISTONE; PIWIL4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HISTONES; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MEIOSIS; MICE; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84933524105     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.257840.114     Document Type: Article

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