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SUBMITTER: Yeh WC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC40575 | biostudies-other | 1995 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Yeh W C WC Li T K TK Bierer B E BE McKnight S L SL
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19951101 24
Mouse 3T3-L1 cells differentiate into fat-laden adipocytes in response to a cocktail of adipogenic hormones. This conversion process occurs in two discrete steps. During an early clonal expansion phase, confluent 3T3-L1 cells proliferate and express the products of the beta and delta members of the CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP) family of transcription factors. The cells subsequently arrest mitotic growth, induce the expression of the alpha form of C/EBP, and acquire the morphology of fu ...[more]