Making muscle in mammals.

Myogenin expression, cell cycle withdrawal, and phenotypic differentiation are temporally separable events that precede cell fusion upon myogenesis. J Cell Biol (1996) 3.71

CCAAT/enhancer binding protein alpha is sufficient to initiate the 3T3-L1 adipocyte differentiation program. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1994) 3.66

Transdifferentiation of myoblasts by the adipogenic transcription factors PPAR gamma and C/EBP alpha. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1995) 3.56

Expression of myogenic regulatory proteins (myogenin and MyoD1) in small blue round cell tumors of childhood. Am J Pathol (1995) 3.37

Combinatorial control of muscle development by basic helix-loop-helix and MADS-box transcription factors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1996) 3.24

Expression of the SM22alpha promoter in transgenic mice provides evidence for distinct transcriptional regulatory programs in vascular and visceral smooth muscle cells. J Cell Biol (1996) 2.88

Skeletal muscle cells lacking the retinoblastoma protein display defects in muscle gene expression and accumulate in S and G2 phases of the cell cycle. J Cell Biol (1996) 2.71

Building muscle: molecular regulation of myogenesis. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol (2012) 2.52

Transcriptional mechanisms regulating skeletal muscle differentiation, growth and homeostasis. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol (2011) 2.51

Dynamics of myoblast transplantation reveal a discrete minority of precursors with stem cell-like properties as the myogenic source. J Cell Biol (1999) 2.50

Regulation of G1 progression by E2A and Id helix-loop-helix proteins. EMBO J (1994) 2.33

Myosin light chain 3F regulatory sequences confer regionalized cardiac and skeletal muscle expression in transgenic mice. J Cell Biol (1995) 2.19

Reversal of muscle differentiation during urodele limb regeneration. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1993) 1.87

Myogenin is required for late but not early aspects of myogenesis during mouse development. J Cell Biol (1995) 1.74

Interaction between acetylated MyoD and the bromodomain of CBP and/or p300. Mol Cell Biol (2001) 1.56

Cyclin-mediated inhibition of muscle gene expression via a mechanism that is independent of pRB hyperphosphorylation. Mol Cell Biol (1996) 1.56

Regulation of dorsal somitic cell fates: BMPs and Noggin control the timing and pattern of myogenic regulator expression. Genes Dev (1998) 1.47

Inactivation of Myf-6 and Myf-5 genes in mice leads to alterations in skeletal muscle development. EMBO J (1995) 1.39

MyoR: a muscle-restricted basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor that antagonizes the actions of MyoD. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1999) 1.39

Critical role played by cyclin D3 in the MyoD-mediated arrest of cell cycle during myoblast differentiation. Mol Cell Biol (1999) 1.35

Coupling of the cell cycle and myogenesis through the cyclin D1-dependent interaction of MyoD with cdk4. EMBO J (1999) 1.32

Interplay between DNA methylation and transcription factor availability: implications for developmental activation of the mouse Myogenin gene. Mol Cell Biol (2010) 1.28

Hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 provokes expression of epithelial marker genes, acting as a morphogen in dedifferentiated hepatoma cells. J Cell Biol (1998) 1.28

Smad7 promotes and enhances skeletal muscle differentiation. Mol Cell Biol (2006) 1.27

Scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor as a regulator of skeletal muscle and neural crest development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1996) 1.27

Fiber-type-specific transcription of the troponin I slow gene is regulated by multiple elements. Mol Cell Biol (1999) 1.24

Multiple steps in the regulation of transcription-factor level and activity. Biochem J (1996) 1.23

Binding of TFIID and MEF2 to the TATA element activates transcription of the Xenopus MyoDa promoter. Mol Cell Biol (1994) 1.22

cis-acting sequences of the rat troponin I slow gene confer tissue- and development-specific transcription in cultured muscle cells as well as fiber type specificity in transgenic mice. Mol Cell Biol (1993) 1.17

Sarcomeric gene expression and contractility in myofibroblasts. J Cell Biol (1997) 1.15

Mouse limb muscle is determined in the absence of the earliest myogenic factor myf-5. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1994) 1.12

Common core sequences are found in skeletal muscle slow- and fast-fiber-type-specific regulatory elements. Mol Cell Biol (1996) 1.08

Abnormal development of the neuromuscular junction in Nedd4-deficient mice. Dev Biol (2009) 1.08

MyoD1 promoter autoregulation is mediated by two proximal E-boxes. Nucleic Acids Res (1994) 1.05

Accumulation of muscle ankyrin repeat protein transcript reveals local activation of primary myotube endcompartments during muscle morphogenesis. J Cell Biol (1997) 1.01

Control of somite patterning by signals from the lateral plate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1995) 1.01

Lysophosphatidic acid and bFGF control different modes in proliferating myoblasts. J Cell Biol (1996) 0.98

Molecular dissection of DNA sequences and factors involved in slow muscle-specific transcription. Mol Cell Biol (2001) 0.98

E-box- and MEF-2-independent muscle-specific expression, positive autoregulation, and cross-activation of the chicken MyoD (CMD1) promoter reveal an indirect regulatory pathway. Mol Cell Biol (1994) 0.98

MyoD and myogenin act on the chicken myosin light-chain 1 gene as distinct transcriptional factors. Mol Cell Biol (1993) 0.96

In differentiating mouse myoblasts DNA methyltransferase is posttranscriptionally and posttranslationally regulated. Nucleic Acids Res (1996) 0.94

Distinct regulatory elements control muscle-specific, fiber-type-selective, and axially graded expression of a myosin light-chain gene in transgenic mice. Mol Cell Biol (1996) 0.92

Somite subdomains, muscle cell origins, and the four muscle regulatory factor proteins. J Cell Biol (1994) 0.91

A direct screen identifies new flight muscle mutants on the Drosophila second chromosome. Genetics (1999) 0.90

The core binding factor CBF negatively regulates skeletal muscle terminal differentiation. PLoS One (2010) 0.87

Activation of the myogenin promoter during mouse embryogenesis in the absence of positive autoregulation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1995) 0.87

High affinity binding of MEF-2C correlates with DNA bending. Nucleic Acids Res (1997) 0.86

Novel intronic microRNA represses zebrafish myf5 promoter activity through silencing dickkopf-3 gene. Nucleic Acids Res (2010) 0.86

dickkopf-3-related gene regulates the expression of zebrafish myf5 gene through phosphorylated p38a-dependent Smad4 activity. J Biol Chem (2010) 0.85

Emerging parallels between stomatal and muscle cell lineages. Plant Physiol (2009) 0.83

Methylation muscles into transcription factor silencing. Transcription (2012) 0.83

Novel muscle-specific enhancer sequences upstream of the cardiac actin gene. Mol Cell Biol (1994) 0.82

Localization of dystrophin gene transcripts during mouse embryogenesis. J Cell Biol (1992) 0.81

Critical role of the Rb family in myoblast survival and fusion. PLoS One (2011) 0.81

The E12 inhibitory domain prevents homodimer formation and facilitates selective heterodimerization with the MyoD family of gene regulatory factors. EMBO J (1995) 0.80

Characterization of muscle-regulatory gene, MyoD, from flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) and analysis of its expression patterns during embryogenesis. Mar Biotechnol (NY) (2006) 0.78

Mechanisms of muscle gene regulation in the electric organ of Sternopygus macrurus. J Exp Biol (2013) 0.77

Uncovering the transcriptional circuitry in skeletal muscle regeneration. Mamm Genome (2011) 0.76

Inhibition of extracellular matrix assembly induces the expression of osteogenic markers in skeletal muscle cells by a BMP-2 independent mechanism. BMC Cell Biol (2009) 0.76

Effects of stress hormone cortisol on the mRNA expression of myogenenin, MyoD, Myf5, PAX3 and PAX7. Cytotechnology (2013) 0.75