Single Cell RNA-Sequencing of Pluripotent States Unlocks Modular Transcriptional Variation

Cell Stem Cell

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 471-485

  Kolodziejczyk, Aleksandra A ^a   Kim, Jong Kyoung ^a   Tsang, Jason C H ^a   Ilicic, Tomislav ^a   Henriksson, Johan ^a   Natarajan, Kedar N ^a   Tuck, Alex C ^a,b   Gao, Xuefei ^a   Bühler, Marc ^b   Liu, Pentao ^a   Marioni, John C ^a,c   Teichmann, Sarah A ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN 20; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN FOS; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSCRIPTOME; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 1; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA; ZFP640 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; STEM CELL SELF-RENEWAL; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MICE; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84947748539     PISSN: 19345909     EISSN: 18759777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2015.09.011     Document Type: Article

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