Oct4 is required ~E7.5 for proliferation in the primitive streak.

Oct4 is a widely recognized pluripotency factor as it maintains Embryonic Stem (ES) cells in a pluripotent state, and, in vivo, prevents the inner cell mass (ICM) in murine embryos from differentiating into trophectoderm. However, its function in somatic tissue after this developmental stage is not...

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Main Authors: Brian DeVeale, Irina Brokhman, Paria Mohseni, Tomas Babak, Charles Yoon, Anthony Lin, Kento Onishi, Alexey Tomilin, Larysa Pevny, Peter W Zandstra, Andras Nagy, Derek van der Kooy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-11-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3828132?pdf=render