Stage-Specific Demethylation in Primordial Germ Cells Safeguards against Precocious Differentiation

Developmental Cell

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 75-86

  Hargan Calvopina, Joseph ^a   Taylor, Sara ^a   Cook, Helene ^a   Hu, Zhongxun ^a   Lee, Serena A ^a   Yen, Ming Ren ^c   Chiang, Yih Shien ^c   Chen, Pao Yang ^c   Clark, Amander T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; 5 METHYLCYTOSINE; 5-HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; DAZL PROTEIN, MOUSE; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEMETHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSPOSON; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GERM CELLS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84992663849     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.07.019     Document Type: Article

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