Modulation of β-catenin function maintains mouse epiblast stem cell and human embryonic stem cell self-renewal

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kim, Hoon ^a   Wu, Jun ^a   Ye, Shoudong ^a   Tai, Chih I ^a   Zhou, Xingliang ^a   Yan, Hexin ^a   Li, Ping ^a   Pera, Martin ^a,b   Ying, Qi Long ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIN; AXIN 2; BETA CATENIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; AXIN2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIBLAST STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STEM CELL; STEM CELL SELF-RENEWAL; ANIMAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; GERM LAYER; METABOLISM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; AXIN PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GERM LAYERS; HUMANS; MICE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROTEIN STABILITY; RATS;

EID: 84892178502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3403     Document Type: Article

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