Differential roles of Sall4 isoforms in embryonic stem cell pluripotency

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5364-5380

  Rao, Sridhar ^a,b   Zhen, Shao ^a,b   Roumiantsev, Sergei ^b,c   McDonald, Lindsay T ^a,f   Yuan, Guo Cheng ^a   Orkin, Stuart H ^a,b,d,e  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETERODIMER; HOMODIMER; ISOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SALL4A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SALL4B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MURINAE;

EID: 78649551191     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00419-10     Document Type: Article

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