La reprogramación de todo el genoma en la línea germinal del ratón implica la vía de reparación por escisión de la

Petra Hajkova1,2, Sean J Jeffries1, Caroline Lee1

  • 1Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QN, UK.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 3, 2010
PubMed
Resumen

La desmetilación activa del ADN en las células germinales primordiales de ratón (PGC) implica roturas de ADN y reparación por escisión de bases (BER), cruciales para la reprogramación de la epigenética y la totipotencia.

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