2019
A novel mouse model demonstrates that oncogenic melanocyte stem cells engender melanoma resembling human disease
Sun Q, Lee W, Mohri Y, Takeo M, Lim CH, Xu X, Myung P, Atit RP, Taketo MM, Moubarak RS, Schober M, Osman I, Gay DL, Saur D, Nishimura EK, Ito M. A novel mouse model demonstrates that oncogenic melanocyte stem cells engender melanoma resembling human disease. Nature Communications 2019, 10: 5023. PMID: 31685822, PMCID: PMC6828673, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12733-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMouse modelNovel mouse modelMelanoma progression modelDeadly skin cancerAnimal modelsSkin cancerBona fide sourceAdvanced stageMelanoma inductionMalignant transformationHuman melanomaMelanomaGene signatureAnagen onsetMolecular profilingMelanoma initiationMelanocyte stem cellsNormal WntStem cellsProgression modelHuman diseasesRecent studiesCancerDiseaseProgressionPutting Cell Competition under the Microscope
Levinsohn J, Myung P. Putting Cell Competition under the Microscope. Developmental Cell 2019, 49: 823-824. PMID: 31211989, DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.05.040.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2016
Hardwiring Stem Cell Communication through Tissue Structure
Xin T, Greco V, Myung P. Hardwiring Stem Cell Communication through Tissue Structure. Cell 2016, 164: 1212-1225. PMID: 26967287, PMCID: PMC4805424, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.02.041.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2015
Niche-induced cell death and epithelial phagocytosis regulate hair follicle stem cell pool
Mesa KR, Rompolas P, Zito G, Myung P, Sun TY, Brown S, Gonzalez DG, Blagoev KB, Haberman AM, Greco V. Niche-induced cell death and epithelial phagocytosis regulate hair follicle stem cell pool. Nature 2015, 522: 94-97. PMID: 25849774, PMCID: PMC4457634, DOI: 10.1038/nature14306.Peer-Reviewed Original Research