Ordered chromatin changes and human X chromosome reactivation by cell fusion-mediated pluripotent reprogramming

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Cantone, Irene ^a   Bagci, Hakan ^a   Dormann, Dirk ^a   Dharmalingam, Gopuraja ^b   Nesterova, Tatyana ^c   Brockdorff, Neil ^c   Rougeulle, Claire ^d   Vallot, Celine ^d   Heard, Edith ^e   Chaligne, Ronan ^e   Merkenschlager, Matthias ^a   Fisher, Amanda G ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Université Sorbonne Paris Cité   (France)

^e INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2B; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; HISTONE; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; XIST NON-CODING RNA;

ALLELE; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INSTABILITY; MEMORY; REACTIVATION; RNA; RODENT; TRACKING;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUSION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROKARYON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; MALE; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CELL FUSION; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HISTONES; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MITOSIS; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84981533511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12354     Document Type: Article

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