The estrogen-dependent C-junER protein causes a reversible loss of mammary epithelial cell polarity involving a destabilization of adherens junctions

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1115-1132

  Fialka, Irene ^a   Schwarz, Heinz ^b   Reichmann, Ernst ^c   Oft, Martin ^a   Busslinger, Meinrad ^a   Beug, Hartmut ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BETA CATENIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; DETERGENT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; HORMONE; HYBRID PROTEIN; RNA; TYROSINE; UVOMORULIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL POLARITY; COLLAGEN; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GELS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0029670092     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.132.6.1115     Document Type: Article

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