Reprogramming Stars #3: Mechanisms of iPSC Reprogramming—An Interview with Dr. Keisuke Kaji

Chantzoura E. , Skylaki S. , Menendez S. , Kim S.I. , Johnsson A. , Linnarsson S. , Woltjen K. , Chambers I. , and Kaji K. (2015). Reprogramming roadblocks are system dependent. Stem Cell Rep. 5, 350–364.

Dos Santos R.L. , Tosti L , Radzisheuskaya A , Caballero I.M. , Kaji K# , Hendrich B , and Silva JC (2014). MBD3/NuRD facilitates induction of pluripotency in a context-dependent manner. Cell Stem Cell 15, 102–110.

Kaji K. , Norrby K. , Paca A. , Mileikovsky M. , Mohseni P. , and Woltjen K. (2009). Virus-free induction of pluripotency and subsequent excision of reprogramming factors. Nature, 458, 771–5.

O'Malley J. , Skylaki S. , Iwabuchi K.A. , Chantzoura E. , Ruetz T. , Johnsson A. , Tomlinson S.R. , Linnarsson S. , and Kaji K (2013). High-resolution analysis with novel cell-surface markers identifies routes to iPS cells. Nature 499, 88–91.

Ruetz T. , Pfisterer U. , Di Stefano B. , Ashmore J. , Beniazza M. , Tian T.V. , Kaemena D.F. , Tosti L. , Tan W. , Manning J.R. , Chantzoura E. , Ottosson D.R. , Collombet S. , Johnsson A. , Cohen E. , Yusa K. , Linnarsson S. , Graf T. , Parmar M. , and Kaji K. (2017). Constitutively active SMAD2/3 are broad-scope potentiators of transcription-factor-mediated cellular reprogramming. Cell Stem Cell, 21, 1–15.

Woltjen K. , Michael I.P. , Mohseni P. , Desai R. , Mileikovsky M. , Hämäläinen R. , Cowling R. , Wang W. , Liu P. , Gertsenstein M. , Kaji K. , Sung H.-K. , and Nagy A. (2009). PiggyBac transposition reprograms fibroblasts to induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature, 458, 766–770.