Loss of pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells directly correlates with an increase in nuclear zinc.

The pluripotency of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) is important to investigations of early development and to cell replacement therapy, but the mechanism behind pluripotency is incompletely understood. Zinc has been shown to play a key role in differentiation of non-pluripotent cell types, but h...

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Main Authors: Janet L Wolford, Yasmin Chishti, Qiaoling Jin, Jesse Ward, Liaohai Chen, Stefan Vogt, Lydia Finney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2924898?pdf=render