Connecting microRNA Genes to the Core Transcriptional Regulatory Circuitry of Embryonic Stem Cells

Cell

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 521-533

  Marson, Alexander ^a,b   Levine, Stuart S ^a   Cole, Megan F ^a,b   Frampton, Garrett M ^a,b   Brambrink, Tobias ^a   Johnstone, Sarah ^a,b   Guenther, Matthew G ^a   Johnston, Wendy K ^a,b   Wernig, Marius ^a   Newman, Jamie ^a,b   Calabrese, J Mauro ^b   Dennis, Lucas M ^a,b   Volkert, Thomas L ^a   Gupta, Sumeet ^a   Love, Jennifer ^a   Hannett, Nancy ^a   Sharp, Phillip A ^b   Bartel, David P ^a,b   Jaenisch, Rudolf ^a,b   Young, Richard A ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

STEMCELL

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; MICRORNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SILENT GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 48449084118     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.07.020     Document Type: Article

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