Direct Nkx2-5 transcriptional repression of isl1 controls cardiomyocyte subtype identity

Stem Cells

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1113-1129

  Dorn, Tatjana ^a   Goedel, Alexander ^a   Lam, Jason T ^a   Haas, Jessica ^a   Tian, Qinghai ^b   Herrmann, Franziska ^c   Bundschu, Karin ^c   Dobreva, Gergana ^a   Schiemann, Matthias ^d,e   Dirschinger, Ralf ^a   Guo, Yanchun ^c   Kühl, Susanne J ^c   Sinnecker, Daniel ^a   Lipp, Peter ^c   Laugwitz, Karl Ludwig ^a,f   Kühl, Michael ^c   Moretti, Alessandra ^a,f  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac differentiation; Cardiac progenitors; Embryonic stem cells; Heart development; Isl1; Nkx2 5

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPATION FACTOR ISL1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSULIN GENE ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ISL-1; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NKX2-5 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN BINDING;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIAC STEM CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; UPREGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; 129 MOUSE; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; XENOPUS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HEK293 CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS;

EID: 84925622556     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: 15494918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.1923     Document Type: Article

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