Histone H3K9 methylation is dispensable for Caenorhabditis elegans development but suppresses RNA:DNA hybrid-associated repeat instability

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1385-1395

  Zeller, Peter ^a,b   Padeken, Jan ^a   Van Schendel, Robin ^c   Kalck, Veronique ^a   Tijsterman, Marcel ^c   Gasser, Susan M ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH DNA; HELMINTH RNA; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3 LYSINE 9; LYSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HISTONE; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; MET-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SET-25 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DELETION MUTANT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DAMAGE CHECKPOINT; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERMLINE MUTATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; INDEL MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; FERTILITY; GENE; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RNA STABILITY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA, HELMINTH; FERTILITY; GENES, HELMINTH; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; LYSINE; METHYLATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RNA STABILITY; RNA, HELMINTH; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84988723452     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3672     Document Type: Article

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