N6-Methyladenosine Methyltransferases and Demethylases: New Regulators of Stem Cell Pluripotency and Differentiation

Stem Cells and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 1050-1059

  Wu, Yunshu ^a   Zhang, Shiwen ^a   Yuan, Quan ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKBH5 PROTEIN; FTO PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; METTL14 PROTEIN; METTL3 PROTEIN; N 6 METHYLADENOSINE DEMETHYLASE; N 6 METHYLADENOSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WTAP PROTEIN; ADENOSINE; N DEMETHYLASE; N(6)-METHYLADENOSINE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA METHYLATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM;

ADENOSINE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; OXIDOREDUCTASES, N-DEMETHYLATING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RNA;

EID: 84978427219     PISSN: 15473287     EISSN: 15578534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2016.0062     Document Type: Review

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