Pax3 functions at a nodal point in melanocyte stem cell differentiation

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7028, 2005, Pages 884-887

  Lang, Deborah ^a,c   Lu, Min Min ^a   Huang, Ll ^a   Engleka, Kurt A ^a   Zhang, Maozhen ^a   Chu, Emily Y ^a   Lipner, Shari ^b   Skoultchi, Arthur ^b   Millar, Sarah E ^a   Epstein, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

MELANIN SYNTHESIS; MELANOBLASTS; MELANOGENESIS; STEM CELLS;

CELLS;

BETA CATENIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CELL PROTEIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ISOMERASE; LYMPHOID ENHANCER FACTOR 1; PROTEIN GRG4; TAUTOMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MITF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT1 PROTEIN; CATNB PROTEIN, MOUSE; CTNNB1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DOPACHROME ISOMERASE; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MITF PROTEIN, HUMAN; MITF PROTEIN, MOUSE; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PAX3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE REPRESSION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEM CELL; AGING; ANIMAL; BINDING COMPETITION; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CATENIN; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SEQUENCE DELETION; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 14544303647     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03292     Document Type: Article

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