X chromosome activity in mouse XX primordial germ cells.

In the early epiblast of female mice, one of the two X chromosomes is randomly inactivated by a Xist-dependent mechanism, involving the recruitment of Ezh2-Eed and the subsequent trimethylation of histone 3 on lysine 27 (H3K27me3). We demonstrate that this random inactivation process applies also to...

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Main Authors: Susana M Chuva de Sousa Lopes, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Tanya C Shovlin, Will Mifsud, M Azim Surani, Anne McLaren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-02-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2233679?pdf=render