Genes at work in random bouts: Stochastically discontinuous gene activity makes cell cycle duration and cell fate decisions variable, thus providing for stem cells plasticity

BioEssays

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 311-319

  Golubev, Alexey ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Cell differentiation; Embryogenesis; Gene expression; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CYCLIN D1; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR KINASE INHIBITOR; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F2;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL CLONING; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL SELECTION; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOLOGY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA BINDING; STEM CELL; STOICHIOMETRY; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84858293805     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201100119     Document Type: Article

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