The pluripotent stem cell-specific transcript ESRG is dispensable for human pluripotency.

Human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) express human endogenous retrovirus type-H (HERV-H), which exists as more than a thousand copies on the human genome and frequently produces chimeric transcripts as long-non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) fused with downstream neighbor genes. Previous studies showed that H...

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Main Authors: Kazutoshi Takahashi, Michiko Nakamura, Chikako Okubo, Zane Kliesmete, Mari Ohnuki, Megumi Narita, Akira Watanabe, Mai Ueda, Yasuhiro Takashima, Ines Hellmann, Shinya Yamanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-05-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009587