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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Adam Adler
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-30816 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Cancer research 20120216 8
CDK8 is a cyclin-dependent kinase that mediates transcriptional control of pathways linked to both cancer and stem cells. In this study, we show that CDK8 is required for both tumor growth and maintenance of tumor dedifferentiation in vivo and uncover a common role for CDK8 in controlling cancer and stem cell function. Acute CDK8 loss in vivo strongly inhibited tumor growth and promoted differentiation. Transcriptional profiling identified a set of embryonic stem cell-related genes that are acti ...[more]