Klf4 cooperates with Oct3/4 and Sox2 to activate the Lefty1 core promoter in embryonic stem cells

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 7772-7782

  Nakatake, Yuhki ^a   Fukui, Nobutaka ^a,b,c   Iwamatsu, Yuko ^a   Masui, Shinji ^a   Takahashi, Kadue ^a   Yagi, Rika ^a   Yagi, Kiyohito ^b   Miyazaki, Jun Ichi ^c   Matoba, Ryo ^d   Ko, Minoru S H ^d   Niwa, Hitoshi ^a,e  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^e KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; LEFTY1 GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; HMGB PROTEINS; HUMANS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; STEM CELLS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 33749624178     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00468-06     Document Type: Article

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