Zscan5b Deficiency Impairs DNA Damage Response and Causes Chromosomal Aberrations during Mitosis

Summary: Zygotic genome activation (ZGA) begins after fertilization and is essential for establishing pluripotency and genome stability. However, it is unclear how ZGA genes prevent mitotic errors. Here we show that knockout of the ZGA gene Zscan5b, which encodes a SCAN domain with C2H2 zinc fingers...

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Main Authors: Seiji Ogawa, Mitsutoshi Yamada, Akihiro Nakamura, Tohru Sugawara, Akari Nakamura, Shoko Miyajima, Yuichirou Harada, Reina Ooka, Ryuichiro Okawa, Jun Miyauchi, Hideki Tsumura, Yasunori Yoshimura, Kenji Miyado, Hidenori Akutsu, Mamoru Tanaka, Akihiro Umezawa, Toshio Hamatani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-06-01
Series:Stem Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221367111930147X