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Jason Allen West

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Jason West

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Reprogramming of human somatic cells to pluripotency with defined factors

IH Park, R Zhao, JA West, A Yabuuchi, H Huo, TA Ince… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Pluripotency pertains to the cells of early embryos that can generate all of the tissues in the
organism. Embryonic stem cells are embryo-derived cell lines that retain pluripotency and …

Nitrogen limitation constrains sustainability of ecosystem response to CO2

PB Reich, SE Hobbie, T Lee, DS Ellsworth, JB West… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Enhanced plant biomass accumulation in response to elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentration
could dampen the future rate of increase in CO 2 levels and associated climate warming…

Molecular paleohydrology: interpreting the hydrogen-isotopic composition of lipid biomarkers from photosynthesizing organisms

…, AL Sessions, JWC White, JB West… - Annual Review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Hydrogen-isotopic abundances of lipid biomarkers are emerging as important proxies in the
study of ancient environments and ecosystems. A decade ago, pioneering studies made …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide localization of the nuclear transport machinery couples transcriptional status and nuclear organization

JM Casolari, CR Brown, S Komili, J West… - Cell, 2004 - cell.com
The association of genes with the nuclear pore complex (NPC) and nuclear transport factors
has been implicated in transcriptional regulation. We therefore examined the association of …

[PDF][PDF] The long noncoding RNAs NEAT1 and MALAT1 bind active chromatin sites

JA West, CP Davis, H Sunwoo, MD Simon, RI Sadreyev… - Molecular cell, 2014 - cell.com
Mechanistic roles for many lncRNAs are poorly understood, in part because their direct
interactions with genomic loci and proteins are difficult to assess. Using a method to purify …

Stable isotopes as one of nature's ecological recorders

JB West, GJ Bowen, TE Cerling… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2006 - cell.com
Analyses of the natural variation in stable isotopes of components of ecological systems have
provided new insights into how these systems function across paleoecological to modern …

[BOOK][B] Isoscapes: understanding movement, pattern, and process on Earth through isotope mapping

JB West, GJ Bowen, TE Dawson, KP Tu - 2009 - Springer
… Bottom center: A leaf water isoscape provided courtesy of Jason West (see Chapter 8, this
… It was in this context that two of the editors of this book (West and Bowen) were engaged in …

A role for Lin28 in primordial germ-cell development and germ-cell malignancy

JA West, SR Viswanathan, A Yabuuchi, K Cunniff… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
The rarity and inaccessibility of the earliest primordial germ cells (PGCs) in the mouse
embryo thwart efforts to investigate molecular mechanisms of germ-cell specification. stella (also …

The genomic binding sites of a noncoding RNA

…, CI Wang, PV Kharchenko, JA West… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have important regulatory roles and can function at the
level of chromatin. To determine where lncRNAs bind to chromatin, we developed capture …

Structural, super-resolution microscopy analysis of paraspeckle nuclear body organization

JA West, M Mito, S Kurosaka, T Takumi… - Journal of cell …, 2016 - rupress.org
Paraspeckles are nuclear bodies built on the long noncoding RNA Neat1, which regulates a
variety of physiological processes including cancer progression and corpus luteum …