Induction of the neural crest state: Control of stem cell attributes by gene regulatory, post-transcriptional and epigenetic interactions

Developmental Biology

Volumn 366, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-21

  Prasad, Maneeshi S ^a   Sauka Spengler, Tatjana ^c   LaBonne, Carole ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C Myc; Epigenetics; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Foxd3; NC GRN; Neural crest; Snail; SoxE

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; MICRORNA; NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX; WNT PROTEIN;

BONE CELL; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CLONAL VARIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GLIA CELL; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MELANOCYTE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL CREST CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

GASTROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860838210     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2012.03.014     Document Type: Review

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