Functional antagonism of the Polycomb-group genes eed and Bmi1 in hemopoietic cell proliferation

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 2691-2703

  Lessard, Julie ^a   Schumacher, Armin ^c   Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur ^a   Van Lohuizen, Maarten ^d   Magnuson, Terry ^e   Sauvageau, Guy ^a,b  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bmi1; Cellular proliferation; Eed; Hemopoiesis; Polycomb Group (PcG) genes

Indexed keywords

ONCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, P16; GENES, REGULATOR; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0033569427     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.20.2691     Document Type: Article

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