Bistable switches control memory and plasticity in cellular differentiation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 6638-6643

  Wang, Lei ^a   Walker, Brandon L ^a   Iannaccone, Stephen ^a   Bhatt, Devang ^a   Kennedy, Patrick J ^a   Tse, William T ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MEMORIAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistability; MAPK signaling; Mesenchymal progenitors; Myogenic differentiation; Osteogenic differentiation

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL STIMULATION; CLONAL VARIATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMORY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CLONE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; SKELETAL MUSCLE SATELLITE CELL; STEM CELL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONE CELLS; HUMANS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; OSTEOGENESIS; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; SATELLITE CELLS, SKELETAL MUSCLE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 66149145491     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806137106     Document Type: Article

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