Targeted Knockout of β-Catenin in Adult Melanocyte Stem Cells Using a Mouse Line, Dct::CreER^T2, Results in Disrupted Stem Cell Renewal and Pigmentation Defects

Affiliations

• ¹ INSERM U1021, Normal and Pathological Development of Melanocytes, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, Orsay, France; CNRS UMR3347, Paris-Sud University, University Paris-Saclay, Paris, France; Equipe Labellisée, Ligue Contre le Cancer, Paris, France.
• ² Department of Tissue and Organ Development, Regeneration and Advanced Medical Science, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan.
• ³ New York Genome Center, Computational Biology, New York, New York, USA.
• ⁴ INSERM U1021, Normal and Pathological Development of Melanocytes, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, Orsay, France; CNRS UMR3347, Paris-Sud University, University Paris-Saclay, Paris, France; Equipe Labellisée, Ligue Contre le Cancer, Paris, France. Electronic address: lionel.larue@curie.fr.