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Cardiac precursor differentiation from hESCs by lentiviral promoter drug selection

ABSTRACT: Several of the essential core transcriptional control elements in human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) have been identified, but the production and function of alternative isoforms in self-renewal, pluripotency and tissue lineage specification remain largely unknown. We have modified the H9 ESC line to allow for drug selection of human pluripotent ESCs and cardiac progenitors. Exon-level microarray expression data from undifferentiated ESCs and day 40 cardiac precursors were used to identify differentially expressed and alternative splice isoforms during differentiation. Keywords: comparison RNA from a homogenous population of undifferentiated hESCs (REX1-neo promoter drug selection) and differentiated day 40 cardiomyocytes (alpha MHC-puro promoter drug selection) was isolated and profiled with exon-tiling arrays.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Nathan Salomonis

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-13297 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Alternative splicing in the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into cardiac precursors.

Salomonis Nathan N Nelson Brandon B Vranizan Karen K Pico Alexander R AR Hanspers Kristina K Kuchinsky Allan A Ta Linda L Mercola Mark M Conklin Bruce R BR

PLoS computational biology 20091106 11

The role of alternative splicing in self-renewal, pluripotency and tissue lineage specification of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) is largely unknown. To better define these regulatory cues, we modified the H9 hESC line to allow selection of pluripotent hESCs by neomycin resistance and cardiac progenitors by puromycin resistance. Exon-level microarray expression data from undifferentiated hESCs and cardiac and neural precursors were used to identify splice isoforms with cardiac-restricted or ...[more]

PMID: 19893621

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Cardiac precursor differentiation from hESCs by lentiviral promoter drug selection

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Alternative splicing in the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into cardiac precursors.

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