A Key Role for Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase Unit in Modulating Human Embryonic Stem Cell Proliferation, Cell Cycle Dynamics, and In Vitro Differentiation

Yang, Chunbo; Przyborski, Stefan; Cooke, Michael J.; Zhang, Xin; Stewart, Rebecca; Anyfantis, George; Atkinson, Stuart P.; Saretzki, Gabriele; Armstrong, Lyle; Lako, Majlinda

doi:10.1634/stemcells.2007-0677

A Key Role for Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase Unit in Modulating Human Embryonic Stem Cell Proliferation, Cell Cycle Dynamics, and In Vitro Differentiation

Embryonic stem cells (ESC) are a unique cell population with the ability to self-renew and differentiate into all three germ layers. Human ESC express the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) gene and the telomerase RNA (TR) and show telomerase activity, but TERT, TR, and telomerase are all do…