Publication Date:
2004-01-31
Description:
It is generally accepted that paternally imprinted X inactivation occurs exclusively in extraembryonic lineages of mouse embryos, whereas cells of the embryo proper, derived from the inner cell mass (ICM), undergo only random X inactivation. Here we show that imprinted X inactivation, in fact, occurs in all cells of early embryos and that the paternal X is then selectively reactivated in cells allocated to the ICM. This contrasts with more differentiated cell types where X inactivation is highly stable and generally irreversible. Our observations illustrate that an important component of genome plasticity in early development is the capacity to reverse heritable gene silencing decisions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mak, Winifred -- Nesterova, Tatyana B -- de Napoles, Mariana -- Appanah, Ruth -- Yamanaka, Shinya -- Otte, Arie P -- Brockdorff, Neil -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Jan 30;303(5658):666-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉X inactivation group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, ICSM, Hammersmith Hospital, London, W12 0NN, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14752160" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acetylation
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Animals
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Blastocyst/physiology
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Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/genetics/metabolism
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Chromosomes, Mammalian/physiology
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*Dosage Compensation, Genetic
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Embryo, Mammalian/*physiology
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Embryonic and Fetal Development
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Female
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*Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
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Genomic Imprinting
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Histones/metabolism
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Male
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Methylation
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Mice, Inbred CBA
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Morula/physiology
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Polycomb Repressive Complex 2
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Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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RNA, Long Noncoding
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RNA, Untranslated/genetics/metabolism
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Repressor Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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X Chromosome/*physiology
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
