Chromatin features and the epigenetic regulation of pluripotency states in ESCs

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2376-2390

  Tee, Wee Wei ^a   Reinberg, Danny ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Epigenetic regulators; Nucleosomes; Pluripotency

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; OXYGEN; PROTEIN VARIANT; TETRAMER;

CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMATIN; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; MONONUCLEOSOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUTRIENT; PLURIPOTENCY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY;

CHROMATIN; EPIGENETIC REGULATORS; NUCLEOSOMES; PLURIPOTENCY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONES; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES; OXYGEN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84902129598     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.096982     Document Type: Review

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