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Lgr5+ intestinal stem cells reside in an unlicensed G1 phase.
The Journal of cell biology - 7 May 2018
Carroll Thomas D, Newton Ian P, Chen Yu, Blow J Julian, Näthke Inke
Abstract excerpt
During late mitosis and the early G1 phase, the origins of replication are licensed by binding to double hexamers of MCM2-7. In this study, we investigated how licensing and proliferative commitment are coupled in the epithelium of the small intestine. We developed a method for identifying cells in intact tissue containing DNA-bound MCM2-7. Interphase cells above the transit-amplifying compartment had no...
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