Maternal Setdb1 Is Required for Meiotic Progression and Preimplantation Development in Mouse.

Oocyte meiotic progression and maternal-to-zygote transition are accompanied by dynamic epigenetic changes. The functional significance of these changes and the key epigenetic regulators involved are largely unknown. Here we show that Setdb1, a lysine methyltransferase, controls the global level of...

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Main Authors: Jeesun Kim, Hongbo Zhao, Jiameng Dan, Soojin Kim, Swanand Hardikar, Debra Hollowell, Kevin Lin, Yue Lu, Yoko Takata, Jianjun Shen, Taiping Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-04-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4829257?pdf=render