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Abstract
Pluripotent stem cells, like embryonic stem cells (ESCs), have specialized epigenetic landscapes, which are important for pluripotency maintenance. Transcription factor-mediated generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) requires global change of somatic cell epigenetic status into an ESC-like state. Accumulating evidence indicates that epigenetic mechanisms not only play important roles in the iPSC generation process, but also affect the properties of reprogrammed iPSCs. Understanding the roles of various epigenetic factors in iPSC generation contributes to our knowledge of the reprogramming mechanisms.Mesh:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 23247625 PMCID: PMC3541668 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2012.175
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Res ISSN: 1001-0602 Impact factor: 25.617