Phytohemagglutinin-L (PHA-L) lectin surface binding of N-linked β1-6 carbohydrate and its relationship to activated mutant ras in human pancreatic cancer cell-lines

Cancer Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 285-291

  Schwarz, Roderich E ^a   Wojciechowicz, Donald C ^a   Park, Patrick Y ^a   Paty, Philip B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

K ras oncogen; Lectin; Pancreatic cancer; Phytohemagglutinin; 1 6 N linked carbohydrate

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; LECTIN; PHOSPHORUS 32; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; RAS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LECTIN BINDING; MEMBRANE BINDING; ONCOGENE K RAS; PANCREAS CANCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030598158     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(96)04386-8     Document Type: Article

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