Regulation of mammalian cell differentiation by long non-coding RNAs

EMBO Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 971-983

  Hu, Wenqian ^a   Alvarez Dominguez, Juan R ^a,b   Lodish, Harvey F ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

cell differentiation; lncRNA; pluripotency

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; EOSINOPHIL GRANULE PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 1; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HOMEOBOX A PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LONG INTERGENIC NONCODING RNA; LONG NON CODING RNA; LYSINE; MAJOR BASIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; NEUROTOXIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; RETINAL NON CODING RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EOSINOPHIL; EPIGENETICS; ERYTHROBLAST; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; MAMMAL CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYELOPOIESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA SYNTHESIS; SOMATIC CELL; SOMATIC PROGENITOR CELL; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MAMMALS; RNA, LONG UNTRANSLATED;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84868683051     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.145     Document Type: Review

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