Genomic occupancy of Runx2 with global expression profiling identifies a novel dimension to control of osteoblastogenesis

Genome Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Wu, Hai ^a   Whitfield, Troy W ^b   Gordon, Jonathan A R ^a   Dobson, Jason R ^c,d   Tai, Phillip W L ^a   van Wijnen, Andre J ^e   Stein, Janet L ^a   Stein, Gary S ^a   Lian, Jane B ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Brown Univerity   (United States)

^e MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRECANASE 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2; PROTEIN BINDING; RUNX2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADAMTS4 GENE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MINERALIZATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRABP2 GENE; EXON; EZH2 GENE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INTRON; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOBLASTOGENESIS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TNFRSF19 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; MOUSE; OSTEOBLAST;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 1 SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME; MICE; OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899633354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2014-15-3-r52     Document Type: Article

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