Control of Developmental Regulators by Polycomb in Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Cell

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 301-313

  Lee, Tong Ihn ^a   Jenner, Richard G ^a   Boyer, Laurie A ^a   Guenther, Matthew G ^a   Levine, Stuart S ^a   Kumar, Roshan M ^a   Chevalier, Brett ^a   Johnstone, Sarah E ^a,b   Cole, Megan F ^a,b   Isono, Kyo ichi ^c   Koseki, Haruhiko ^c   Fuchikami, Takuya ^d   Abe, Kuniya ^d   Murray, Heather L ^a   Zucker, Jacob P ^f   Yuan, Bingbing ^a   Bell, George W ^a   Herbolsheimer, Elizabeth ^a   Hannett, Nancy M ^a   Sun, Kaiming ^a   Odom, Duncan T ^a   Otte, Arie P ^e   Volkert, Thomas L ^a   Bartel, David P ^a,b   Melton, Douglas A ^f   Gifford, David K ^a,g   Jaenisch, Rudolf ^a,b   Young, Richard A ^a,b   more..

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d RIKEN TSUKUBA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; NANOG PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; RNA POLYMERASE II; SUZ12 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROL; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOSOME; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

METAZOA;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33646865180     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.02.043     Document Type: Article

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