Navigating the epigenetic landscape of pluripotent stem cells

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 524-535

  Li, Mo ^a   Liu, Guang Hui ^a,b   Belmonte, Juan Carlos Izpisua ^a,c  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CENTER OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE IN BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HOX GENE; HUMAN; INNER CELL MASS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LAMINA; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; NUCLEOSOME; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETT SYNDROME; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; NUCLEAR LAMINA; NUCLEOSOMES;

EID: 84864251887     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3393     Document Type: Review

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