Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Dynamics of lineage commitment revealed by single-cell transcriptomics of differentiating embryonic stem cells

  • Stefan Semrau,
  • Johanna E. Goldmann,
  • Magali Soumillon,
  • Tarjei S. Mikkelsen,
  • Rudolf Jaenisch,
  • Alexander van Oudenaarden

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01076-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Commitment to different fates by differentiating pluripotent cells depends upon integration of external and internal signals. Here the authors analyse the entry of mouse embryonic stem cells into retinoic acid-mediated differentiation using single cell transcriptomics with high temporal resolution.