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Oct-3/4 and Sox2 regulate Oct-3/4 gene in embryonic stem cells.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 18 Feb 2005
Okumura-Nakanishi Sayaka, Saito Motoki, Niwa Hitoshi, Ishikawa Fuyuki
Abstract excerpt
Oct-3/4 is a key transcriptional factor whose expression level governs the fate of primitive inner cell mass and embryonic stem (ES) cells. Previously, an upstream 3.3-kb distal enhancer (DE) fragment was identified to be responsible for the specific expression of mouse Oct-3/4 in the inner cell mass and ES cells. However, little is known about the cis-elements and trans-factors required for DE activity. In this...
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