DNA methylation and gene expression dynamics during spermatogonial stem cell differentiation in the early postnatal mouse testis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kubo, Naoki ^a,b   Toh, Hidehiro ^a   Shirane, Kenjiro ^a   Shirakawa, Takayuki ^c   Kobayashi, Hisato ^d   Sato, Tetsuya ^a   Sone, Hidetoshi ^c   Sato, Yasuyuki ^c   Tomizawa, Shin Ichi ^c   Tsurusaki, Yoshinori ^c   Shibata, Hiroki ^a   Saitsu, Hirotomo ^c   Suzuki, Yutaka ^e   Matsumoto, Naomichi ^c   Suyama, Mikita ^a   Kono, Tomohiro ^d   Ohbo, Kazuyuki ^c   Sasaki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 hydroxymethylcytosine; DNA methylation; Non CG methylation; Prospermatogonia; Spermatogenesis; Spermatogonia; Spermatogonial stem cell

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; 5 METHYLCYTOSINE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELL; GERMLINE STEM CELL; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PROSPERMATOGONIUM; RETROPOSON; RNA SEQUENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84939541148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1833-5     Document Type: Article

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