Retroviral transcriptional regulation and embryonic stem cells: War and peace

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 770-777

  Schlesinger, Sharon ^a   Goff, Stephen P ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CHROMATIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; TRANSPOSON;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETROVIRUS; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, VIRAL; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; MICE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84961287889     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01293-14     Document Type: Short Survey

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