Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

CREPT is required for murine stem cell maintenance during intestinal regeneration

  • Liu Yang,
  • Haiyan Yang,
  • Yunxiang Chu,
  • Yunhao Song,
  • Lidan Ding,
  • Bingtao Zhu,
  • Wanli Zhai,
  • Xuning Wang,
  • Yanshen Kuang,
  • Fangli Ren,
  • Baoqing Jia,
  • Wei Wu,
  • Xiongjun Ye,
  • Yinyin Wang,
  • Zhijie Chang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20636-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The role of CREPT, a recently identified tumor-promoting gene, outside of tumors is unclear. Here, the authors identify CREPT as maintaining murine intestinal stem cells, with embryonic deletion causing impaired cell proliferation and regeneration.