Understanding the molecular circuitry of cell lineage specification in the early mouse embryo

Genes

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 420-448

  Bergsmedh, Anna ^a   Donohoe, Mary E ^a,b   Hughes, Rebecca Ayme ^b   Hadjantonakis, Anna Katerina ^c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BURKE MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Early development; Epigenetic marks; Lineage specification; Mouse embryo; Stem cells; Transcriptional circuitry

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BETA GLOBIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY FACTOR 1; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EOMESODERMIN; HISTONE; LYSINE; LYSINE SPECIFIC DEMETHYLASE 1; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; RNA; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YAP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDODERM; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INNER CELL MASS; MORULA; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTA; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

IPS;

EID: 80053182393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes2030420     Document Type: Review

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