RARγ is essential for retinoic acid induced chromatin remodeling and transcriptional activation in embryonic stem cells

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 999-1008

  Kashyap, Vasundhra ^a,c   Laursen, Kristian B ^a   Brenet, Fabienne ^a   Viale, Agnes J ^b   Scandura, Joseph M ^a   Gudas, Lorraine J ^a,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Epigenetics; Meis1; Nuclear receptor; Retinoic acid receptor; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RETINOIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN 2; CYTOCHROME P450 26A1; DLEU7 PROTEIN; ISOTRETINOIN; LEFTB PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MYELOID ECOTROPIC VIRAL INTEGRATION SITE 1PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR GAMMA; STAT5 PROTEIN; STIMULATED BY RETINOIC ACID 6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PBX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRETINOIN;

EID: 84876318986     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.119701     Document Type: Article

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