SON connects the splicing-regulatory network with pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1141-1152

  Lu, Xinyi ^a,b   Göke, Jonathan ^a   Sachs, Friedrich ^a,b   Jacques, Pierre Étienne ^c   Liang, Hongqing ^a   Feng, Bo ^d   Bourque, Guillaume ^e   Bubulya, Paula A ^f   Ng, Huck Hui ^a,b,g  

^a GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; E4F1 PROTEIN; MED24 PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PRDM14 PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SON PROTEIN; TUBG1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTRON; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SPLICING REGULATORY NETWORK;

CELL SURVIVAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84885090785     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2839     Document Type: Article

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