Stepwise transformation of rat embryo fibroblasts: c-Jun, JunB, or JunD can cooperate with Ras for focus formation, but a c-Jun-containing heterodimer is required for immortalization

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1881-1888

  Vandel, Laurence ^a   Montreau, Nicole ^b   Vial, Emmanuel ^a   Pfarr, Curt M ^c   Binetruy, Bernard ^b   Castellazzi, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b CNRS ER 105   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C JUN; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029990925     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.5.1881     Document Type: Article

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