YAP/TAZ link cell mechanics to Notch signalling to control epidermal stem cell fate

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Totaro, Antonio ^a   Castellan, Martina ^a   Battilana, Giusy ^a   Zanconato, Francesca ^a   Azzolin, Luca ^a   Giulitti, Stefano ^a,b   Cordenonsi, Michelangelo ^a   Piccolo, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; ACTIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; WWTR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; WWTR1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; YAP PROTEIN, MOUSE; YAP1 (YES-ASSOCIATED) PROTEIN, HUMAN;

BIOMECHANICS; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CYTOGENETICS; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL SHAPE; EPIDERMAL STEM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEK293T CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; EPIDERMIS; EPISTASIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTINS; ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SHAPE; EPIDERMIS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85019950835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15206     Document Type: Article

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