The transcriptional foundation of pluripotency

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2311-2322

  Chambers, Ian ^a   Tomlinson, Simon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; DNA FRAGMENT; ESTROGEN RELATED RECEPTOR BETA; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; LIVER RECEPTOR HOMOLOG 1; MYC PROTEIN; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NR2F2; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SALL4; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 0 GROUP B MEMBER 1; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS ASSOCIATED 1; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN 281;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN LOCALIZATION; DEACETYLATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; DNA; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 69649084228     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.024398     Document Type: Review

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