A tripartite transcription factor network regulates primordial germ cell specification in mice

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 905-915

  Magnúsdóttir, Erna ^a,b,e   Dietmann, Sabine ^b   Murakami, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Günesdogan, Ufuk ^a,b   Tang, Fuchou ^a,b,f   Bao, Siqin ^a,b,g   Diamanti, Evangelia ^c   Lao, Kaiqin ^d   Gottgens, Berthold ^c   Surani, M Azim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; PR DOMAIN CONTAINING 4 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2GAMMA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; GENE REPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; MICE; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 84881478692     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2798     Document Type: Article

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