Hair follicle epithelial stem cells get their sox on.
Christiano AM
Department of Dermatology, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA. amc65@columbia.edu
Sox family transcription factors have emerged as key regulators of multiple developmental processes, including fate determination and differentiation in multiple tissues. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Nowak et al. (2008) implicate Sox9 in the specification of early hair follicle stem cells and subsequent epithelial lineages.
Published 2 July 2008 in Cell Stem Cell, 3(1): 3-4.
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