The pioneer factor OCT4 requires the chromatin remodeller BRG1 to support gene regulatory element function in mouse embryonic stem cells

eLife

Volumn 6, Issue , 2017, Pages

  King, Hamish W ^a   Klose, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRG1 PROTEIN; DOXYCYCLINE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; DNA; DNA HELICASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; POU5F1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN BINDING; SMARCA4 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; DNA; DNA HELICASES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 85018462823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.22631     Document Type: Article

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