The epithelial-mesenchymal transition factor SNAIL paradoxically enhances reprogramming

Stem Cell Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 691-698

  Unternaehrer, Juli J ^a,b,c,f   Zhao, Rui ^a,b,c,g   Kim, Kitai ^a,b,c,h   Cesana, Marcella ^a,b,c   Powers, John T ^a,b,c   Ratanasirintrawoot, Sutheera ^a,b,c   Onder, Tamer ^a,b,c,i   Shibue, Tsukasa ^d,e   Weinberg, Robert A ^d,e   Daley, George Q ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^h WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

ⁱ KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MIRNLET7 MICRORNA, MOUSE; PHOTOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; SNAIL FAMILY TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; 129 MOUSE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; KERATINOCYTE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; KERATINOCYTES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICRORNAS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84922606875     PISSN: 22136711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2014.09.008     Document Type: Article

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