Putative oncogene Brachyury (T) is essential to specify cell fate but dispensable for notochord progenitor proliferation and EMT.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on March 22, 2016

Authors

Jianjian Zhu1, Kin Ming Kwan2, Susan Mackem3

Author Affiliations

1: Cancer & Developmental Biology Laboratory (CDBL), Center for Cancer Research (CCR), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Frederick, MD 21702;
2: School of Life Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
3: Cancer & Developmental Biology Laboratory (CDBL), Center for Cancer Research (CCR), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Frederick, MD 21702; mackems@mail.nih.gov.

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