Direct conversion of mouse and human fibroblasts to functional melanocytes by defined factors

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yang, Ruifeng ^a   Zheng, Ying ^b   Li, Ling ^c   Liu, Shujing ^a   Burrows, Michelle ^b   Wei, Zhi ^d   Nace, Arben ^b   Herlyn, Meenhard ^c   Cui, Rutao ^e   Guo, Wei ^f   Cotsarelis, George ^b   Xu, Xiaowei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d University Heights   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PIGMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10; MITF PROTEIN, HUMAN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PAX3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SOX10 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

BIOASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GERM CELL; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; PIGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; CELL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; EPIDERMIS; FIBROBLAST; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT DISORDER; SKIN; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PROCEDURES; RETROVIRIDAE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; DERMIS; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOSOMES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; RETROVIRIDAE; SOXE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84922614473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6807     Document Type: Article

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