Article
Identification of a new gene family specifically expressed in chicken embryonic stem cells and early embryo.
Mechanisms of development - 1 May 2001
Acloque H, Risson V, Birot A M, Kunita R, Pain B, Samarut J
Abstract excerpt
Chicken embryonic stem (CES) cells are pluripotent cells derived from chicken early blastoderm. In order to identify new genes specifically expressed in these pluripotent cells, we have used a gene trap strategy and cloned a novel gene family called cENS for chicken Embryonic Normal Stem cell gene. The cENS genes expression decreases after induction of CES cells differentiation in culture and is restricted in...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Avian Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Lineage
- Cells, Cultured
- Chick Embryo
- DNA
- DNA, Complementary
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Fetal Proteins
- Genes, Reporter
