Boolean Modelling reveals new regulatory connections between transcription factors orchestrating the development of the ventral spinal cord

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Lovrics, Anna ^a,f   Gao, Yu ^a,g   Juhász, Bianka ^a   Bock, István ^a,b   Byrne, Helen M ^c   Dinnyés, András ^a,b,d   Kovács, Krisztián A ^a,e  

^a BIOTALENTUM LTD   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^f INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IRX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LUCIFERASE;

ARTICLE; BOOLEAN MODEL; CELL FATE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRX3 GENE; KNOCKOUT GENE; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NKX2.2 GENE; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VENTRAL SPINAL CORD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMBRYOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84911928028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111430     Document Type: Article

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