Deciphering the stem cell machinery as a basis for understanding the molecular mechanism underlying reprogramming

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3403-3420

  Bosnali, Manal ^a   Münst, Bernhard ^a   Thier, Marc ^a   Edenhofer, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Differentiation; Germ cell; Non coding rna; Pluripotency; Reprogramming; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN D2; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A2 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 70349859611     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-009-0095-2     Document Type: Review

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