Mechanisms of nuclear reprogramming by eggs and oocytes: A deterministic process?

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 453-459

  Jullien, Jerome ^a,b   Pasque, Vincent ^a,b   Halley Stott, Richard P ^a,b   Miyamoto, Kei ^a,b   Gurdon, J B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE;

CELL FUSION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; OOCYTE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONES; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; METHYLATION; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OOCYTES; OVUM; TIME FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 79959553843     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3140     Document Type: Review

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