OCT4 Acts as an Integrator of Pluripotency and Signal-Induced Differentiation

Molecular Cell

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 647-661

  Simandi, Zoltan ^a,b   Horvath, Attila ^b   Wright, Lyndsey C ^c   Cuaranta Monroy, Ixchelt ^b   De Luca, Isabella ^a   Karolyi, Katalin ^a   Sauer, Sascha ^d,e,f   Deleuze, Jean Francois ^g   Gudas, Lorraine J ^h   Cowley, Shaun M ^c   Nagy, Laszlo ^a,b,i  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^f MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^g CENTRE NATIONAL DE GÉNOTYPAGE   (France)

^h WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cdx1; embryonic stem cell; Hoxb1; Oct4; RAR:RXR; retinoic acid; Wnt catenin

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 3; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; MESSENGER RNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PERIPHERAL MYELIN PROTEIN 22; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOID; SILENCING MEDIATOR OF RETINOID AND THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; WNT PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOXB1 HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; POU5F1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; POU5F1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RARA PROTEIN, HUMAN; RARA PROTEIN, MOUSE; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA; RETINOID X RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; KIDNEY CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; CELL LINEAGE; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; WNT SIGNALING;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA; RETINOID X RECEPTORS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TRETINOIN; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84992702728     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.06.039     Document Type: Article

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