The high mobility group protein HMGA2: A co-regulator of chromatin structure and pluripotency in stem cells?

Stem Cell Reviews and Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 224-230

  Pfannkuche, Kurt ^a   Summer, Heike ^b   Li, Ou ^b   Hescheler, Jürgen ^a   Dröge, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Gene regulation; HMGA proteins; Pluripotency; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

DNA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A2 PROTEIN; HISTONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CONFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STEM CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HMGA2 PROTEIN; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 70349613017     PISSN: 15508943     EISSN: 15586804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12015-009-9078-9     Document Type: Article

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