Cell Reprogramming Requires Silencing of a Core Subset of Polycomb Targets

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Fragola, Giulia ^a,b   Germain, Pierre Luc ^a   Laise, Pasquale ^a   Cuomo, Alessandro ^a   Blasimme, Alessandro ^a,d   Gross, Fridolin ^a   Signaroldi, Elena ^a   Bucci, Gabriele ^a,e   Sommer, Cesar ^c   Pruneri, Giancarlo ^a   Mazzarol, Giovanni ^a   Bonaldi, Tiziana ^a   Mostoslavsky, Gustavo ^c   Casola, Stefano ^b   Testa, Giuseppe ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b FIRC INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Faculté de Médecine Centre Hospitalo universitaire   (France)

^e ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; LYSINE; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERM LAYER; GROWTH REGULATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA METHYLATION; FIBROBLASTS; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; JUMONJI DOMAIN-CONTAINING HISTONE DEMETHYLASES; MICE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS;

EID: 84874781927     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003292     Document Type: Article

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