A Truncated β-Catenin Disrupts the Interaction between E-Cadherin and α-Catenin: A Cause of Loss of Intercellular Adhesiveness in Human Cancer Cell Lines

Cancer Research

Volumn 54, Issue 23, 1994, Pages 6282-6287

  Oyama, Tsukasa ^a   Kanai, Yae ^a   Ochiai, Atsushi ^a   Akimoto, Shingo ^a   Oda, Tatsuya ^a,b   Yanagihara, Kazuyoshi ^c   Nagafuchi, Akira ^d   Tsukita, Shoichiro ^d   Shibamoto, Sayumi ^e   Ito, Fumiaki ^e   Takeichi, Masatoshi ^f   Matsuda, Hikaru ^b   Hirohashi, Setsuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; UVOMORULIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INVASION; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0028172660     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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