Concise review: The Sox2-Oct4 connection: Critical players in a much larger interdependent network integrated at multiple levels

Stem Cells

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1033-1039

  Rizzino, Angie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dna repair; Embryonic stem cells; Gene regulatory networks; Induced pluripotent stem cells; Oct4; Proteomics; Reprogramming; Self renewal; Sox2; Transcription factors; Transcriptional circuitry

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL RENEWAL; DNA BINDING; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84877102425     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.1352     Document Type: Short Survey

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