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ABSTRACT:
INSTRUMENT(S): Illumina HiSeq 2000
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Kathi Zarnack
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-2278 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Murn Jernej J Zarnack Kathi K Yang Yawei J YJ Durak Omer O Murphy Elisabeth A EA Cheloufi Sihem S Gonzalez Dilenny M DM Teplova Marianna M Curk Tomaž T Zuber Johannes J Patel Dinshaw J DJ Ule Jernej J Luscombe Nicholas M NM Tsai Li-Huei LH Walsh Christopher A CA Shi Yang Y
Genes & development 20150301 5
Cellular morphology is an essential determinant of cellular function in all kingdoms of life, yet little is known about how cell shape is controlled. Here we describe a molecular program that controls the early morphology of neurons through a metazoan-specific zinc finger protein, Unkempt. Depletion of Unkempt in mouse embryos disrupts the shape of migrating neurons, while ectopic expression confers neuronal-like morphology to cells of different nonneuronal lineages. We found that Unkempt is a s ...[more]