The endogenous retrovirus ENS-1 provides active binding sites for transcription factors in embryonic stem cells that specify extra embryonic tissue

Retrovirology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mey, Anne ^a   Acloque, Hervé ^b,c   Lerat, Emmanuelle ^a,d,e   Gounel, Sébastien ^a   Tribollet, Violaine ^a   Blanc, Sophie ^a   Curton, Damien ^a   Birot, Anne Marie ^a   Nieto, M Angela ^b   Samarut, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INSTITUTO DE NEUROCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; ENS 1 GENE; EPIGENETICS; EXTRAEMBRYONAL TISSUE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHICK EMBRYO; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA, VIRAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; PROTEIN BINDING; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84858134354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-9-21     Document Type: Article

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