A WNTer revisit: New faces of β-catenin and TCFs in pluripotency

Science Signaling

Volumn 4, Issue 193, 2011, Pages

  Watanabe, Kazuhide ^a   Dai, Xing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; LYMPHOID ENHANCER FACTOR 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7 LIKE 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; WNT PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1ALPHA; HNF1A PROTEIN, MOUSE; TCF3 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL RENEWAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BETA CATENIN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1-ALPHA; MICE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; WNT PROTEINS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 80053467945     PISSN: 19450877     EISSN: 19379145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2002436     Document Type: Review

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44. Acknowledgments: We thank M. Waterman for discussions and critical reading of the manuscript. Funding: The Dai laboratory has been funded by grants from the NIH (R01-AR47320 and R01-GM083089). K.W. is a recipient of a U.S. Department of Defense postdoctoral fellowship (W81XWH-10-1-0383).