The Oct4 and Nanog transcription network regulates pluripotency in mouse embryonic stem cells

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 431-440

  Loh, Yuin Han ^a,b   Wu, Qiang ^a   Chew, Joon Lin ^a,b   Vega, Vinsensius B ^a   Zhang, Weiwei ^a,b   Chen, Xi ^a,b   Bourque, Guillaume ^a   George, Joshy ^a   Leong, Bernard ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Wong, Kee Yew ^a   Sung, Ken W ^a   Lee, Charlie W H ^a   Zhao, Xiao Dong ^a   Chiu, Kuo Ping ^a   Lipovich, Leonard ^a   Kuznetsov, Vladimir A ^a   Robson, Paul ^a,b   Stanton, Lawrence W ^a   Wei, Chia Lin ^a   Ruan, Yijun ^a   Lim, Bing ^a,c   Ng, Huck Hui ^a,b   more..

^a GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; RNA INTERFERENCE; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645381936     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1760     Document Type: Article

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