The transcriptomes of two heritable cell types illuminate the circuit governing their differentiation

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Tuch, Brian B ^a,b   Mitrovich, Quinn M ^a   Homann, Oliver R ^a   Hernday, Aaron D ^a   Monighetti, Cinna K ^b   de La Vega, Francisco M ^b   Johnson, Alexander D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Life Technologies Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHITE OPAQUE REGULATOR 1 PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERITABILITY; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; CANDIDIASIS; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL DIVISION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77957348024     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001070     Document Type: Article

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