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The magnitude of hedgehog signaling activity defines skin tumor phenotype.
The EMBO journal - 2 Jun 2003
Grachtchouk Vladimir, Grachtchouk Marina, Lowe Lori, Johnson Tim, Wei Lebing, Wang Aiqin, de Sauvage Fred, Dlugosz Andrzej A
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Gain-of-function mutations in SMO have been implicated in constitutive activation of the hedgehog signaling pathway in human basal cell carcinomas (BCCs). We used a truncated keratin 5 (DeltaK5) promoter to assess the potential role of the human M2SMO mutant in BCC development in adult transgenic...
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