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Facts about Developmental pluripotency-associated protein 3.
Participates in protection of DNA methylation from the maternal pronucleus by preventing conversion of 5mC to 5hmC: specifically recognizes and binds histone H3 dimethylated at'Lys-9' (H3K9me2) on maternal genome, and shields maternal genome from TET3-mediated conversion to 5hmC and following DNA demethylation. Does not bind paternal chromatin, which is mainly packed into protamine and doesn't include much H3K9me2 mark.
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Gene Name: | Dppa3 |
Uniprot: | Q8QZY3 |
Entrez: | 73708 |
Belongs to: |
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No superfamily |
developmental pluripotency associated 3; DPPA3 developmental pluripotency associated 3; Dppa3; Stella
Mass (kDA):
17.67 kDA
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Location: | 6|6 F1 |
Sequence: | 6; |
Expressed in the immature oocytes and in newborn ovaries. Subsequently detected in maturing oocytes and in preimplantation embryos. Expressed in pluripotent embryonic but not in differentiated somatic cells. Expressed in blastocysts, epiblasts, primordial germ cells, embryonic gonads and primitive spermatogonia. No expression is detected in adult testes.
PMID: 12124616 by Saitou M., et al. A molecular programme for the specification of germ cell fate in mice.
PMID: 11900980 by Sato M., et al. Identification of PGC7, a new gene expressed specifically in preimplantation embryos and germ cells.