Pluripotency factors and Polycomb Group proteins repress aryl hydrocarbon receptor expression in murine embryonic stem cells

Stem Cell Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 296-308

  Ko, Chia I ^a   Wang, Qin ^a   Fan, Yunxia ^a   Xia, Ying ^a   Puga, Alvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA ISOLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UPREGULATION; WHOLE CELL;

2,3,7,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN; ACETYLATED HISTONE H3; ACETYLATED LYSINE-27 OF HISTONE H3; ACETYLATED LYSINE-9 OF HISTONE H3; AH RECEPTOR NUCLEAR TRANSLOCATOR; AHR; AHR RESPONSE ELEMENT; AHRE; ARNT; ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX/PER-ARNT-SIM; BHLH/PAS; CARBOXYL-TERMINAL REPEAT DOMAIN; CHIP; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CTD; EB; EMBRYOID BODIES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EMT; ENHANCER OF ZESTE HOMOLOG 2; EPITHELIAL-TO-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; ESC; EZH2; H3AC; H3K27AC; H3K27ME3/2/1; H3K36ME3; H3K4ME3/2/1; H3K9AC; H3K9ME3/2/1; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HMT; ICM; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; INNER-CELL-MASS; IPSC; KDM6A/B; KNOCK OUT; KO; LYSINE DEMETHYLASE 6A AND 6B; MESENCHYMAL-TO-EPITHELIAL TRANSITION; MET; MLL; MYELOID/LYMPHOID OR MIX-LINEAGE LEUKEMIA; OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, MYC; OSKM; PCG; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEINS; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEXES 1 AND 2; PRC1/2; RING FINGER PROTEIN 1B; RING1B; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA POLYMERASE II HYPERPHOSPHORYLATED IN CTD SERINE-5 AND SERINE-2; RNA POLYMERASE II PHOSPHORYLATED IN CTD SERINE-5 BUT NOT SERINE-2; RNAPII; RNAPII (S5P(+)S2P(+)); RNAPII (S5P(+)S2P(-)); SUPPRESSOR OF ZESTE 12 HOMOLOG; SUZ12; TCDD; TES; TRANSCRIPTION END SITE; TRANSCRIPTION START SITE; TRI-METHYLATED LYSINE-36 OF HISTONE H3; TRI/DI/MONO-METHYLATED LYSINE-27 OF HISTONE H3; TRI/DI/MONO-METHYLATED LYSINE-4 OF HISTONE H3; TRI/DI/MONO-METHYLATED LYSINE-9 OF HISTONE H3; TRITHORAX GROUP PROTEINS; TSS; TXG;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; RNA POLYMERASE II; SP3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84889665576     PISSN: 18735061     EISSN: 18767753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2013.11.007     Document Type: Article

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