PIWI proteins are dispensable for mouse somatic development and reprogramming of fibroblasts into pluripotent stem cells.

PIWI proteins play essential and conserved roles in germline development, including germline stem cell maintenance and meiosis. Because germline regulators such as OCT4, NANOG, and SOX2 are known to be potent factors that reprogram differentiated somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iP...

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Main Authors: Ee-Chun Cheng, Dongwan Kang, Zhong Wang, Haifan Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4169525?pdf=render