Constitutive activation of the RON gene promotes invasive growth but not transformation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 7072-7083

  Santoro, Massimo M ^a,b   Collesi, Chiara ^a   Grisendi, Silvia ^a   Gaudino, Giovanni ^b   Comoglio, Paolo M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Dept Sci Adv Technol Alessandria ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTO ONCOGENE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029997180     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.12.7072     Document Type: Article

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