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E2F1 works as a cell cycle suppressor in mature neurons.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 14 Nov 2007
Wang Li, Wang Rong, Herrup Karl
Abstract excerpt
Neurons are highly differentiated cells that normally never enter a cell cycle; if they do, the result is usually death, not division. For example, cerebellar granule neurons in staggerer and lurcher mutant mice initiate a cell cycle-like process just before they die. E2F1 is a transcription factor that promotes cell cycle progression. Because E2F1 is also involved in apoptosis, we bred double mutants (E2f1-/-;...
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