Actin and serum response factor transduce physical cues from the microenvironment to regulate epidermal stem cell fate decisions

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 711-718

  Connelly, John T ^a   Gautrot, Julien E ^a   Trappmann, Britta ^a   Tan, David Wei Min ^a   Donati, Giacomo ^b   Huck, Wilhelm T S ^a,c   Watt, Fiona M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CANCER RESEARCH UK CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CELL PROTEIN; INVOLUCRIN; MEGAKARYOCYTIC ACUTE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN FOS; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR JUNB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EPIDERMAL STEM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KERATINOCYTE; MICROENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ACTINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR;

EID: 77954243855     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2074     Document Type: Article

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