title: Regulation of pluripotency by RNA binding proteins.
abstract: Establishment, maintenance, and exit from pluripotency require precise coordination of a cell's molecular machinery. Substantial headway has been made in deciphering many aspects of this elaborate system, particularly with respect to epigenetics, transcription, and noncoding RNAs. Less attention has been paid to posttranscriptional regulatory processes such as alternative splicing, RNA processing and modification, nuclear export, regulation of transcript stability, and translation. Here, we introduce the RNA binding proteins that enable the posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression, summarizing current and ongoing research on their roles at different regulatory points and discussing how they help script the fate of pluripotent stem cells.
authors.affiliation: The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Center for Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.affiliation: The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Center for Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. Electronic address: blellochr@stemcell.ucsf.edu.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Blelloch
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D039904:Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D026723:Polyadenylation; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D020871:RNA Stability; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins