Concise Review: Pluripotency and the Transcriptional Inactivation of the Female Mammalian X Chromosome

Live-Cell Chromosome Dynamics and Outcome of X Chromosome Pairing Events during ES Cell Differentiation

(2011) Osamu Masui et al.   CELL

YY1 Tethers Xist RNA to the Inactive X Nucleation Center

(2011) Yesu Jeon et al.   CELL

Isolation of Epiblast Stem Cells from Preimplantation Mouse Embryos

(2011) Fadi J. Najm et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Unexpected X Chromosome Skewing during Culture and Reprogramming of Human Somatic Cells Can Be Alleviated by Exogenous Telomerase

(2011) Oz Pomp et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Transcription precedes loss of Xist coating and depletion of H3K27me3 during X-chromosome reprogramming in the mouse inner cell mass

(2011) L. H. Williams et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Histone variant macroH2A confers resistance to nuclear reprogramming

(2011) Vincent Pasque et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Isolation of MECP2-null Rett Syndrome patient hiPS cells and isogenic controls through X-chromosome inactivation

(2011) Aaron Y.L. Cheung et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Eutherian mammals use diverse strategies to initiate X-chromosome inactivation during development

(2011) Ikuhiro Okamoto et al.   NATURE

Neuronal maturation defect in induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with Rett syndrome

(2011) K.-Y. Kim et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

RNF12 Activates Xist and Is Essential for X Chromosome Inactivation

(2011) Tahsin Stefan Barakat et al.   PLoS Genetics

Derivation of Pre-X Inactivation Human Embryonic Stem Cells under Physiological Oxygen Concentrations

(2010) Christopher J. Lengner et al.   CELL

LINE-1 Activity in Facultative Heterochromatin Formation during X Chromosome Inactivation

(2010) Jennifer C. Chow et al.   CELL

The Long Noncoding RNA, Jpx, Is a Molecular Switch for X Chromosome Inactivation

(2010) Di Tian et al.   CELL

A Model for Neural Development and Treatment of Rett Syndrome Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

(2010) Maria C.N. Marchetto et al.   CELL

Female Human iPSCs Retain an Inactive X Chromosome

(2010) Jason Tchieu et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Stat3 Activation Is Limiting for Reprogramming to Ground State Pluripotency

(2010) Jian Yang et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Epigenetic regulation of X-inactivation in human embryonic stem cells

(2010) Tamar Dvash et al.   Epigenetics

Ftx is a non-coding RNA which affects Xist expression and chromatin structure within the X-inactivation center region

(2010) Corinne Chureau et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Two-Step Imprinted X Inactivation: Repeat versus Genic Silencing in the Mouse

(2010) S. H. Namekawa et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Maternal Rnf12/RLIM is required for imprinted X-chromosome inactivation in mice

(2010) JongDae Shin et al.   NATURE

Molecular coupling of Tsix regulation and pluripotency

(2010) Pablo Navarro et al.   NATURE

Direct reprogramming of fibroblasts into epiblast stem cells

(2010) Dong Wook Han et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Random X Inactivation and Extensive Mosaicism in Human Placenta Revealed by Analysis of Allele-Specific Gene Expression along the X Chromosome

(2010) Joana Carvalho Moreira de Mello et al.   PLoS One

Variations of X Chromosome Inactivation Occur in Early Passages of Female Human Embryonic Stem Cells

(2010) Tamar Dvash et al.   PLoS One

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

(2010) J. Hanna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

X Chromosome Inactivation Is Initiated in Human Preimplantation Embryos

(2009) Ilse M. van den Berg et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

RNF12 Is an X-Encoded Dose-Dependent Activator of X Chromosome Inactivation

(2009) Iris Jonkers et al.   CELL

Nanog Is the Gateway to the Pluripotent Ground State

(2009) Jose Silva et al.   CELL

Metastable Pluripotent States in NOD-Mouse-Derived ESCs

(2009) Jacob Hanna et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Naive and Primed Pluripotent States

(2009) Jennifer Nichols et al.   Cell Stem Cell

X inactivation and the complexities of silencing a sex chromosome

(2009) Jennifer Chow et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Klf4 reverts developmentally programmed restriction of ground state pluripotency

(2009) G. Guo et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The pluripotency factor Oct4 interacts with Ctcf and also controls X-chromosome pairing and counting

(2009) Mary E. Donohoe et al.   NATURE

Epigenetic reversion of post-implantation epiblast to pluripotent embryonic stem cells

(2009) Siqin Bao et al.   NATURE

Dynamic changes in paternal X-chromosome activity during imprinted X-chromosome inactivation in mice

(2009) C. Patrat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

X Inactivation Counting and Choice Is a Stochastic Process: Evidence for Involvement of an X-Linked Activator

(2008) Kim Monkhorst et al.   CELL

Integration of External Signaling Pathways with the Core Transcriptional Network in Embryonic Stem Cells

(2008) Xi Chen et al.   CELL

Defining Molecular Cornerstones during Fibroblast to iPS Cell Reprogramming in Mouse

(2008) Matthias Stadtfeld et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Higher order chromatin structure at the X-inactivation center via looping DNA

(2008) Chia-Lun Tsai et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

X-chromosome inactivation and epigenetic fluidity in human embryonic stem cells

(2008) S. S. Silva et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

X-inactivation in female human embryonic stem cells is in a nonrandom pattern and prone to epigenetic alterations

(2008) Y. Shen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular Coupling of Xist Regulation and Pluripotency

(2008) P. Navarro et al.   SCIENCE