Publication Date:
2003-03-22
Description:
The Polycomb group (PcG) protein Eed is implicated in regulation of imprinted X-chromosome inactivation in extraembryonic cells but not of random X inactivation in embryonic cells. The Drosophila homolog of the Eed-Ezh2 PcG protein complex achieves gene silencing through methylation of histone H3 on lysine 27 (H3-K27), which suggests a role for H3-K27 methylation in imprinted X inactivation. Here we demonstrate that transient recruitment of the Eed-Ezh2 complex to the inactive X chromosome (Xi) occurs during initiation of X inactivation in both extraembryonic and embryonic cells and is accompanied by H3-K27 methylation. Recruitment of the complex and methylation on the Xi depend on Xist RNA but are independent of its silencing function. Together, our results suggest a role for Eed-Ezh2-mediated H3-K27 methylation during initiation of both imprinted and random X inactivation and demonstrate that H3-K27 methylation is not sufficient for silencing of the Xi.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Plath, Kathrin -- Fang, Jia -- Mlynarczyk-Evans, Susanna K -- Cao, Ru -- Worringer, Kathleen A -- Wang, Hengbin -- de la Cruz, Cecile C -- Otte, Arie P -- Panning, Barbara -- Zhang, Yi -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Apr 4;300(5616):131-5. Epub 2003 Mar 20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12649488" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Blastocyst/metabolism/*physiology
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Cell Differentiation
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Cell Nucleus/metabolism
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Cells, Cultured
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*Dosage Compensation, Genetic
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Female
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Fluorescent Antibody Technique
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Genomic Imprinting
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HeLa Cells
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Histones/*metabolism
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Humans
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In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
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Lysine/metabolism
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Male
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Methylation
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Mice
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Mutation
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Polycomb Repressive Complex 2
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RNA, Long Noncoding
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RNA, Untranslated/genetics/metabolism
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Repressor Proteins/metabolism
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Stem Cells/metabolism/*physiology
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Transgenes
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Trophoblasts/*physiology
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X Chromosome/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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