Rapid neurogenesis through transcriptional activation in human stem cells

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Busskamp, Volker ^a,b,m   Lewis, Nathan E ^a,b,c,d   Guye, Patrick ^e   Ng, Alex Hm ^a,b   Shipman, Seth L ^a,b   Byrne, Susan M ^a,b   Sanjana, Neville E ^f,g   Murn, Jernej ^a,h   Li, Yinqing ^e   Li, Shangzhong ⁱ   Stadler, Michael ^j,k,l   Weiss, Ron ^e   Church, George M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^f BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^j FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^k SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^m CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE THERAPIES DRESDEN   (Germany)

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Author keywords

gene regulatory networks; microRNAs; neurogenesis; stem cell differentiation; transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DOXYCYCLINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 124; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEUROGENIN 1; NEUROGENIN 2; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SYNAPSIN I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROG1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NEUROG2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYOLOGY; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PHYSIOLOGY;

BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84925235094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/msb.20145508     Document Type: Article

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