2017
Precocious Phenotypic Transcription‐Factor Expression During Early Development
VanOudenhove J, Medina R, Ghule P, Lian J, Stein J, Zaidi S, Stein G. Precocious Phenotypic Transcription‐Factor Expression During Early Development. Journal Of Cellular Biochemistry 2017, 118: 953-958. PMID: 27591551, PMCID: PMC5336526, DOI: 10.1002/jcb.25723.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhenotypic transcription factorsTranscription factorsPrecocious expressionRUNX1 transcription factorTranscriptional controlLineage identityGene expressionNovel roleBiological importanceMesenchymal transitionEarly differentiationMesenchymal differentiationTransient upregulationDetailed mechanistic studiesExpressionDifferentiationMechanistic studiesRUNX1RoleUpregulationFurther studies
2016
Transient RUNX1 Expression during Early Mesendodermal Differentiation of hESCs Promotes Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition through TGFB2 Signaling
VanOudenhove J, Medina R, Ghule P, Lian J, Stein J, Zaidi S, Stein G. Transient RUNX1 Expression during Early Mesendodermal Differentiation of hESCs Promotes Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition through TGFB2 Signaling. Stem Cell Reports 2016, 7: 884-896. PMID: 27720906, PMCID: PMC5106514, DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2016.09.006.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHuman embryonic stem cellsHESC differentiationMesendodermal lineage commitmentPhenotypic transcription factorsLoss of repressionRUNX1 depletionMesenchymal transitionEmbryonic stem cellsLoss of RUNX1Mesendodermal lineagesMesendodermal differentiationLineage commitmentTranscription factorsBiochemical approachesEpithelial genesCell motilityFunctional analysisEpithelial marker expressionRUNX1 expressionStem cellsRUNX1TGFB2DifferentiationEarly eventsCandidate factors