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In vitro characteristics of early epidermal progenitors isolated from keratin 14 (K14)-deficient mice: Insights into the role of keratin 17 in mouse keratinocytes
1 Sept 1999
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Keratin 14 (K14) is believed to play a pivotal role in the maintenance of epidermal cell shape and contributing to their resistance to mechanical trauma, thereby protecting the cells from lysing. Mice harboring a K14 null mutation produce phenotypic characteristics of epidermolysis bullosa simplex, a skin blistering disease (Lloyd et al., 1995, J Cell Biol 129:1329-1344). K14 null animals die several days after...
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