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The core transcriptional regulatory circuitry of pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) was first established by Boyer et al. (2005) and contained the master regulators of pluripotency OCT4, SOX2, and NANOG. These three transcription factors were found to interact in a mutually- and auto-activating fashion thereby promoting and maintaining pluripotency (Boyer et al., 2005; Loh et al., 2006). This regulatory circuitry has been extended in further studies to yield different larger networks regulating pluripotency (Ivanova et al., 2006; Zhou et al., 2007; Chavez et al., 2009).
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