Embryonic transcription is controlled by maternally defined chromatin state

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hontelez, Saartje ^a   Van Kruijsbergen, Ila ^a   Georgiou, Georgios ^a   Van Heeringen, Simon J ^a   Bogdanovic, Ozren ^b   Lister, Ryan ^b,c   Veenstra, Gert Jan C ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMANITIN; E1A ASSOCIATED P300 PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; RNA POLYMERASE II; CHROMATIN; HISTONE; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME; GENOME; HERITABILITY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; XENOPUS TROPICALIS; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONES; METHYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 84950291354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10148     Document Type: Article

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