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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Florian Halbritter
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-1619 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Cell stem cell 20130501 5
Embryonic stem cell (ESC) pluripotency is governed by a gene regulatory network centered on the transcription factors Oct4 and Nanog. To date, robust self-renewing ESC states have only been obtained through the chemical inhibition of signaling pathways or enforced transgene expression. Here, we show that ESCs with reduced Oct4 expression resulting from heterozygosity also exhibit a stabilized pluripotent state. Despite having reduced Oct4 expression, Oct4(+/-) ESCs show increased genome-wide bin ...[more]