Current and emerging approaches to define intestinal epithelium-specific transcriptional networks

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 302, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Olsen, Anders Krüger ^a,c   Boyd, Mette ^a   Danielsen, Erik Thomas ^a   Troelsen, Jesper Thorvald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Hospital South   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ChIP chip; ChIP seq; Differentiation; Gene regulation

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1ALPHA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4ALPHA; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; WNT PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CRYPT CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84856201344     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00362.2011     Document Type: Review

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