E2f6 and Bmi1 cooperate in axial skeletal development

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1232-1242

  Courel, Maria ^a   Friesenhahn, Laurie ^a   Lees, Jacqueline A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

ARF; Axial skeleton; Bmi1; Cell cycle; E2F6; p16; p19; Polycomb; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ARF PROTEIN; BMI1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; HOX GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CELL CYCLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; E2F6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SKELETON; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 43449130065     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21516     Document Type: Article

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