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Nature Cell Biology 8, 623–630 (1 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/ncb1413

Blimp1 associates with Prmt5 and directs histone arginine methylation in mouse germ cells

Katia Ancelin , Ulrike C. Lange , Petra Hajkova , Robert Schneider , Andrew J. Bannister , Tony Kouzarides & M. Azim Surani

Blimp1, a transcriptional repressor, has a crucial role in the specification of primordial germ cells (PGCs) in mice at embryonic day 7.5 (E7.5). This SET–PR domain protein can form complexes with various chromatin modifiers in a context-dependent manner.