Ectopic expression of MITF, a gene for Waardenburg syndrome type 2, converts fibroblasts to cells with melanocyte characteristics

Nature Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 50-54

  Tachibana, Masayoshi ^a   Takeda, Kazuhisa ^a   Nobukuni, Yoshitaka ^b,d   Urabe, Kazunori ^c,e   Long, Jason E ^c   Meyers, Kimberly A ^c,f   Aaronson, Stuart A ^c,f   Miki, Toru ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^e Shin Kokura Hospital   (Japan)

^f MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DENDRITIC CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; ONCOGENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAARDENBURG SYNDROME;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; WAARDENBURG'S SYNDROME;

EID: 0029741915     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0996-50     Document Type: Article

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