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Detailed characterization of the mouse embryonic stem cell transcriptome reveals novel genes and intergenic splicing associated with pluripotency

Galih Kunarso1 email, Kee-Yew Wong2 email, Lawrence W Stanton2,3 email and Leonard Lipovich1,4,5 email

1Computational & Mathematical Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore, 60 Biopolis Street #02-01, Singapore 138672, Singapore

2Stem Cell & Developmental Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore, 60 Biopolis Street #02-01, Singapore 138672, Singapore

3Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Singapore

4School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Block N4, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore

5Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics & Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, 3228 Scott Hall, 540 E. Canfield Street, Detroit, MI 48201, USA

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BMC Genomics 2008, 9:155doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-155

Published: 9 April 2008

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Additional file 1:

Detailed PET sequences used in this analysis and the genomic properties of the 16 novel and putative intergenically spliced TUs selected for experimental validation from the GIS PET-transcriptome dataset.

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Full-length sequences of all splice isoforms of all the 5 TUs studied and the intergenically spliced transcript found in [11].

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Oct4, Nanog, and Sox2 binding sites in the 100 kb vicinity of the TUs identified from chromatin immunoprecipitation paired-end diTags (ChIP-PET) [3] and ChIP-seq [H. H. Ng et al., unpublished].

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Expression levels of the pluripotency markers Oct4, Sox2, Nanog, and Klf4 upon RA-, DMSO-, and HMBA-induced differentiation.

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Primer sequences used to characterize the TUs identified in this study.

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Catalog numbers of mouse total RNA (BD Biosciences Clontech) used in the multi-tissue panel expression analysis.

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Catalog numbers of TaqMan probes (Applied Biosystems) used in the QRTPCR.

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Sequences of the custom siRNA (Dharmacon) designed for the TUs.

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