Reprogramming human fibroblasts to neurons by recapitulating an essential microRNA-chromatin switch

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 591-598

  Tang, Jiong ^a   Yoo, Andrew S ^b   Crabtree, Gerald R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 124; MICRORNA 9; PROTEIN BAF53; PROTEIN BAF53A; PROTEIN BAF53B; PROTEIN BAF53C; PROTEIN BAF60; PROTEIN CREST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL CYCLE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SWITCHING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING;

EID: 84883759470     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2013.07.001     Document Type: Review

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