The lncRNA Firre anchors the inactive X chromosome to the nucleolus by binding CTCF and maintains H3K27me3 methylation

Genome Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Yang, Fan ^a   Deng, Xinxian ^a   Ma, Wenxiu ^a   Berletch, Joel B ^a   Rabaia, Natalia ^b   Wei, Gengze ^c   Moore, James M ^b   Filippova, Galina N ^b   Xu, Jun ^c   Liu, Yajuan ^a   Noble, William S ^a,d   Shendure, Jay ^a   Disteche, Christine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; CCCTC-BINDING FACTOR; FIRRE LONG NON CODING RNA, MOUSE; HISTONE DEMETHYLASE; KDM6B PROTEIN, MOUSE; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DXZ4 GENE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HISTONE METHYLATION; LNCRNA FIRRE GENE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; X CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; JUMONJI DOMAIN-CONTAINING HISTONE DEMETHYLASES; MALE; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84938412430     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0618-0     Document Type: Article

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