Gatekeeper of pluripotency: A common Oct4 transcriptional network operates in mouse eggs and embryonic stem cells

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zuccotti, Maurizio ^a   Merico, Valeria ^b   Bellone, Michele ^c   Mulas, Francesca ^c   Sacchi, Lucia ^c   Rebuzzini, Paola ^c   Prigione, Alessandro ^d   Redi, Carlo A ^b   Bellazzi, Riccardo ^c   Adjaye, James ^d   Garagna, Silvia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; POU5F1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INHERITANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OOCYTE;

PYRONIA TITHONUS;

ANIMALS; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OOCYTES;

EID: 79959837836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-345     Document Type: Article

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