OCT4: A penetrant pluripotency inducer

Native OCT4 protein has the intrinsic ability of crossing cellular membranes to enter cells. This finding could revive efforts to induce pluripotency with proteins replacing nucleic acid-based approaches, and raises the intriguing question as to whether OCT4 can act non-cell-autonomously.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xuecong Wang, Ralf Jauch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2014-01-01
Series:Cell Regeneration
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2045976917300202