The tumour suppressor L(3)mbt inhibits neuroepithelial proliferation and acts on insulator elements

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1029-1041

  Richter, Constance ^a   Oktaba, Katarzyna ^b   Steinmann, Jonas ^a   Müller, Jürg ^b   Knoblich, Juergen A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JANUS KINASE; L3MBT PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; STAT PROTEIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; NEUROEPITHELIAL CELLS; OPTIC LOBE, NONMAMMALIAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 80052456164     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2306     Document Type: Article

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