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The role of the ZEB family of transcription factors in development and disease.
Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS - 1 Mar 2009
Vandewalle C, Van Roy F, Berx G
Abstract excerpt
The ZEB family of zinc finger transcription factors are essential players during normal embryonic development. One characteristic is that they induce epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT), a process that reorganizes epithelial cells to become migratory mesenchymal cells. E-cadherin is a major target gene of these transcriptional repressors, and this downregulation is considered a hallmark of EMT. In recent...
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