title: Chromatin remodeling in embryonic stem cells: regulating the balance between pluripotency and differentiation.
abstract: Embryonic stem cells have an unlimited potential for self-renewal yet are pluripotent, capable of differentiating into three different germ layers and ultimately into multiple cell lineages. Key pluripotency specific factors maintain an undifferentiated ES cell phenotype while lineage specific factors work in opposition to promote cell specialization. In addition to these important transcriptional regulators, epigenetic modifiers play a defining role in regulating the balance between pluripotency and differentiation by promoting changes in chromatin structure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, OH 43614, USA.
authors.forename: Bridget
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Keenen
authors.forename: Ivana L
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: de la Serna
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000502:physiology*; D019070:Cell Lineage; D042002:Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly; D053595:Embryonic Stem Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D051548:Histone Acetyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism; D006655:Histone Deacetylases / Q000378:metabolism; D000076983:Histone Methyltransferases; D011495:Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase; D010641:Phenotype; D039904:Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D011496:Protein Methyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000076983:Histone Methyltransferases; D011496:Protein Methyltransferases; D011495:Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase; D051548:Histone Acetyltransferases; D006655:Histone Deacetylases