TERT promotes epithelial proliferation through transcriptional control of a Myc- and Wnt-related developmental program

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 0124-0138

  Choi, Jinkuk ^a   Southworth, Lucinda K ^a   Sarin, Kavita Y ^a   Venteicher, Andrew S ^a   Ma, Wenxiu ^b   Chang, Woody ^a   Cheung, Peggie ^a   Jun, Sohee ^a   Artandi, Maja K ^a   Shah, Naman ^a   Kim, Stuart K ^a   Artandi, Steven E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; MYC PROTEIN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; WNT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TERT PROTEIN, MOUSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR GROWTH; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KERATINOCYTE; MAMMAL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; STEM CELL; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HAIR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOPSY; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HAIR; HAIR FOLLICLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN; STEM CELLS; TELOMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 38949156672     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040010     Document Type: Article

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