Mustapha Oulad-Abdelghani

TL;DR: Results define a novel function for the conserved CD and suggest that HP1 self-association and histone binding may play a crucial role in HP1-mediated heterochromatin assembly.

TL;DR: An association of TIF1β with both heterochromatin and euchromatin in interphase nuclei is reported and it is shown that trichostatin A, an inhibitor of histone deacetylases, can interfere with both Tif1 and HP1 silencing.

TL;DR: The in situ hybridization pattern of expression of AP-2.2 transcripts during mouse embryogenesis is reported, which shows the gene is expressed in several embryonic areas whose development can be affected by retinoids, such as the forebrain, face and limb buds.

TL;DR: It is proposed that, in preleptotene spermatocytes, STRA8 is involved in the process that leads to stable commitment to the meiotic cell cycle.

TL;DR: An efficient differential subtractive hybridization cloning strategy was used to identify additional RA-responsive genes in P19 cells and describes the sequence and expression pattern in mouse embryos and adult tissues of one of these novel RA-inducible genes, Stra1, and shows that it corresponds to the mouse ligand for the Cek5 receptor protein-tyrosine kinase.