Neural Progenitors Adopt Specific Identities by Directly Repressing All Alternative Progenitor Transcriptional Programs

Developmental Cell

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 639-653

  Kutejova, Eva ^a   Sasai, Noriaki ^a,b   Shah, Ankita ^a,c   Gouti, Mina ^a   Briscoe, James ^a  

^a THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX6.1; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NKX6-1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; OLIG2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; ECTOPIC EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; CHICK EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; CHICK EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84961217300     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.02.013     Document Type: Article

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