Is REST required for ESC pluripotency?

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7233, 2009, Pages

  Jørgensen, Helle F ^a   Chen, Zhou Feng ^b   Merkenschlager, Matthias ^a   Fisher, Amanda G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BINDING PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN REST; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; CELL MUTANT; CELL RENEWAL; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; MESODERM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRETINOIN;

EID: 61349200079     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07783     Document Type: Note

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