The Merlin/NF2 Tumor Suppressor Functions through the YAP Oncoprotein to Regulate Tissue Homeostasis in Mammals

Developmental Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-38

  Zhang, Nailing ^a   Bai, Haibo ^a   David, Karen K ^a   Dong, Jixin ^a   Zheng, Yonggang ^a   Cai, Jing ^a   Giovannini, Marco ^b   Liu, Pentao ^c   Anders, Robert A ^a   Pan, Duojia ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Devbio; Humdisease

Indexed keywords

MERLIN; ONCOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YAP ONCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BILE; BILE DUCT CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE REPRESSION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEOSTASIS; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BILE DUCTS; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA PRIMERS; HEPATOCYTES; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEOSTASIS; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NEUROFIBROMIN 2; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 77954945373     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2010.06.015     Document Type: Article

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