Dental Pulp Stem Cell Heterogeneity: Finding Superior Quality “Needles” in a Dental Pulpal “Haystack” for Regenerative Medicine-Based Applications

Table 2

Summary of the marker genes identified to exhibit upregulated expression by microarray analysis, which distinguishes between high proliferative/multipotent hDPSCs and low proliferative hDPSC subpopulations. Adapted from Menicanin et al. [117].

Gene functions	Gene symbol
Cell cycle, mitosis, and cell division	ASPM, AURKB, CCNB2, CDC2, CDC20, CENPF, CEP55, CIT, CKS2, DLG7, MAD2L1, NCAPG, PBK, PTTG1, UBE2C
DNA repair and replication	CHEK1, E2F2, GINS2, POLQ, PTTG1, RPA3, RRM2, TOP2A
Transcription regulation	CENPF, E2F2, LDB2, PTTG1, TWIST-1
Cell proliferation and differentiation	CENPF, CHEK1, CIT, CKS2, TWIST-1