KLF4 transcriptionally activates non-canonical WNT5A to control epithelial stratification

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Tetreault, Marie Pier ^a,b   Weinblatt, Daniel ^a   Shaverdashvili, Khvaramze ^a   Yang, Yizeng ^a   Katz, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDC42 PROTEIN, HUMAN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; PROTEIN CDC42; WNT5A PROTEIN; WNT5A PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; WNT-5A PROTEIN;

EID: 84969180394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep26130     Document Type: Article

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