The two Major CD44 Proteins Expressed on a Metastatic Rat T\imor Cell Line Are Derived from Different Splice Variants: Each One Individually Suffices to Confer Metastatic Behavior

Cancer Research

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1262-1268

  Rudy, Wolfgang ^a   Hofmann, Martin ^a   Schwartz Albiez, Reinhard ^b   Zller, Margot ^c   Heider, Karl Heinz ^a   Ponta, Helmut ^a   Herrlich, Peter ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c fr Radiologie und Pathophysiologic ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERMES ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DNA; GLYCOSYLATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RATS; RECEPTORS, LYMPHOCYTE HOMING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0027410839     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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