Transcriptional competence in pluripotency

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 2793-2798

  Raghu Ram, Edupuganti V S ^a   Meshorer, Eran ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chromatin; DNA methylation; Embryonic stem cells; Induced pluripotent stem cells; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BINDING PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GENOMIC DNA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3ALPHA; HISTONE; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

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EID: 72849134873     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1881609     Document Type: Review

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