A negative feedback loop of transcription factors that controls stem cell pluripotency and self-renewal

FASEB Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Pan, Guangjin ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Zhou, Yali ^a   Zheng, Hui ^a   Pei, Duanqing ^a,b  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTES OF BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTH   (China)

Author keywords

Embryonic stem cells

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN FOXD3; PROTEIN NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXD3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NANOG PROTEIN, MOUSE; POU5F1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; MOUSE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33845628507     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.05-5543fje     Document Type: Article

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