アラビドプシス・タリアナの jmjC ドメインを含むタンパク質による遺伝子DNAメチル化の制御

Hidetoshi Saze1, Akiko Shiraishi, Asuka Miura

  • 1Department of Integrated Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Yata 1111, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan. hsaze@lab.nig.ac.jp

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|January 26, 2008
PubMed
まとめ

研究者らは,表遺伝的調節に不可欠な遺伝子であるIBM1を特定した. IBM1の変異は,発達上の問題とDNAメチル化パターンの変化につながり,クロマチンの改造とヒストンの改変の相互作用を強調しています.

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