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A Maternal-Zygotic Effect Gene, Zfp57, Maintains Both Maternal and Paternal Imprints

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Li, Xiajun, Ito, Mitsuteru, Zhou, Fen, Youngson, Neil, Zuo, Xiaopan, Leder, Philip, Ferguson-Smith, Anne C.·2008·Developmental Cell

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Summary The mechanisms responsible for maintaining genomic methylation imprints in mouse embryos are not understood. We generated a knockout mouse in the Zfp57 locus encoding a KRAB zinc finger protein. Loss of just the zygotic function of Zfp57 causes partial neonatal lethality, while eliminating both maternal and zygotic functions of Zfp57 results in a highly penetrant embryonic lethality. In oocytes, absence of Zfp57 results in failure to establish maternal methylation imprints at the Snrpn imprinted region. Intriguingly, methylation imprints are re-acquired specifically at the maternally derived Snrpn imprinted region when the zygotic Zfp57 is present in embryos. This suggests that there may be DNA methylation-independent memory for genomic imprints. Zfp57 is also required for the post-fertilization maintenance of maternal and paternal methylation imprints at multiple imprinted domains. The effects on genomic imprinting are consistent with the maternal-zygotic lethality of Zfp57 mutants.

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Authors
Li, X., Ito, M., Zhou, F., Youngson, N., Zuo, X., Leder, P., & Ferguson-Smith, A. C.
Venue
Developmental Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2008-10
Volume
15
Issue
4
Pages
547-557
ISSN
1534-5807 (ISSN-L)
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W2035877973
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647
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4
FWCI
19.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Li, X., Ito, M., Zhou, F., Youngson, N., Zuo, X., Leder, P., & Ferguson-Smith, A. C. (2008). A Maternal-Zygotic Effect Gene, Zfp57, Maintains Both Maternal and Paternal Imprints. Developmental Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2008.08.014

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