Single-cell transcriptomics reconstructs fate conversion from fibroblast to cardiomyocyte

Nature

Volumn 551, Issue 7678, 2017, Pages 100-104

  Liu, Ziqing ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Welch, Joshua D ^b   Ma, Hong ^a   Zhou, Yang ^a   Vaseghi, Haley Ruth ^a   Yu, Shuo ^a   Wall, Joseph Blake ^a   Alimohamadi, Sahar ^a   Zheng, Michael ^a   Yin, Chaoying ^a   Shen, Weining ^c   Prins, Jan F ^b   Liu, Jiandong ^a   Qian, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina   (United States)

^c 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD200 ANTIGEN; CLCA1 PROTEIN; MEF2C PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TM4SF1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX5; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; GATA4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; MEF2C PROTEIN, MOUSE; MESSENGER RNA; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT BINDING PROTEIN; PTBP1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; T-BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 5;

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; REDUCTION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; EXON SKIPPING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ONTOLOGY; HEART FIBROBLAST; INTRON; MOUSE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; DOWN REGULATION; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RNA SPLICING; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; DOWN-REGULATION; FIBROBLASTS; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; MEF2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT-BINDING PROTEIN; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85032797966     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature24454     Document Type: Article

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