Pluripotency and the endogenous retrovirus HERVH: Conflict or serendipity?

An ESRG-interacting protein, COXII, is involved in pro-apoptosis of human embryonic stem cells

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Dynamic Transcription of Distinct Classes of Endogenous Retroviral Elements Marks Specific Populations of Early Human Embryonic Cells

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Intrinsic retroviral reactivation in human preimplantation embryos and pluripotent cells

(2015) Edward J. Grow et al.   NATURE

An alternative pluripotent state confers interspecies chimaeric competency

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Retrotransposons shape species-specific embryonic stem cell gene expression

(2015) Luisa Robbez-Masson et al.   Retrovirology

The decline of human endogenous retroviruses: extinction and survival

(2015) Gkikas Magiorkinis et al.   Retrovirology

CD24 tracks divergent pluripotent states in mouse and human cells

(2015) Nika Shakiba et al.   Nature Communications

Repbase Update, a database of repetitive elements in eukaryotic genomes

(2015) Weidong Bao et al.   Mobile DNA

Resetting Transcription Factor Control Circuitry toward Ground-State Pluripotency in Human

(2014) Yasuhiro Takashima et al.   CELL

Molecular Control of Induced Pluripotency

(2014) Thorold W. Theunissen et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Generation of Naive Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Rhesus Monkey Fibroblasts

(2014) Riguo Fang et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Systematic Identification of Culture Conditions for Induction and Maintenance of Naive Human Pluripotency

(2014) Thorold W. Theunissen et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Retroviral Transcriptional Regulation and Embryonic Stem Cells: War and Peace

(2014) Sharon Schlesinger et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Divergent reprogramming routes lead to alternative stem-cell states

(2014) Peter D. Tonge et al.   NATURE

Primate-specific endogenous retrovirus-driven transcription defines naive-like stem cells

(2014) Jichang Wang et al.   NATURE

DNA methylation dynamics of the human preimplantation embryo

(2014) Zachary D. Smith et al.   NATURE

The DNA methylation landscape of human early embryos

(2014) Hongshan Guo et al.   NATURE

The retrovirus HERVH is a long noncoding RNA required for human embryonic stem cell identity

(2014) Xinyi Lu et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Derivation of naive human embryonic stem cells

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Dynamic regulation of human endogenous retroviruses mediates factor-induced reprogramming and differentiation potential

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Defining an essential transcription factor program for naive pluripotency

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Induction of a Human Pluripotent State with Distinct Regulatory Circuitry that Resembles Preimplantation Epiblast

(2013) Yun-Shen Chan et al.   Cell Stem Cell

A membrane-associated  -catenin/Oct4 complex correlates with ground-state pluripotency in mouse embryonic stem cells

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Identification of the missing pluripotency mediator downstream of leukaemia inhibitory factor

(2013) Graziano Martello et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Embryonic stem cell self-renewal pathways converge on the transcription factor Tfcp2l1

(2013) Shoudong Ye et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

MYC/MAX control ERK signaling and pluripotency by regulation of dual-specificity phosphatases 2 and 7

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Derivation of novel human ground state naive pluripotent stem cells

(2013) Ohad Gafni et al.   NATURE

Endogenous retroviruses function as species-specific enhancer elements in the placenta

(2013) Edward B Chuong et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Single-cell RNA-Seq profiling of human preimplantation embryos and embryonic stem cells

(2013) Liying Yan et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Differentiation-defective phenotypes revealed by large-scale analyses of human pluripotent stem cells

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Active Transposition in Genomes

(2012) Cheng Ran Lisa Huang et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Env-less endogenous retroviruses are genomic superspreaders

(2012) G. Magiorkinis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

HERV-H RNA is abundant in human embryonic stem cells and a precise marker for pluripotency

(2012) Federico A Santoni et al.   Retrovirology

Transposable elements reveal a stem cell-specific class of long noncoding RNAs

(2012) David Kelley et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Human long non-coding RNAs promote pluripotency and neuronal differentiation by association with chromatin modifiers and transcription factors

(2011) Shi-Yan Ng et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Dynamic control of endogenous retroviruses during development

(2011) Helen M. Rowe et al.   VIROLOGY

A Murine ESC-like State Facilitates Transgenesis and Homologous Recombination in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

(2010) Christa Buecker et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Induced pluripotency: history, mechanisms, and applications

(2010) M. Stadtfeld et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Large intergenic non-coding RNA-RoR modulates reprogramming of human induced pluripotent stem cells

(2010) Sabine Loewer et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Transposable elements have rewired the core regulatory network of human embryonic stem cells

(2010) Galih Kunarso et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Modulation of CP2 Family Transcriptional Activity by CRTR-1 and Sumoylation

(2010) Sarah To et al.   PLoS One

Human embryonic stem cells with biological and epigenetic characteristics similar to those of mouse ESCs

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Molecular evolution of a novel hyperactive Sleeping Beauty transposase enables robust stable gene transfer in vertebrates

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