Judge, jury and executioner of stem cell fate

Epigenetics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 823-840

  Tollervey, James R ^a   Lunyak, Victoria V ^a  

^a BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Embryonic stem cells; Epigenetics; Histone modification; Hydroxymethylation; Non coding RNA; Polycomb; Post translational modification; Trithorax

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE DEPENDENT PROTEINASE; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE DEMETHYLASE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; MICRORNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; HISTONE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MORULA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROGENY; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTONES; HUMANS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84864677516     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.21141     Document Type: Review

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