Neurofibromatosis 2 tumor suppressor protein colocalizes with ezrin and CD44 and associates with actin-containing cytoskeleton

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 110, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 2249-2260

  Sainio, Markku ^a   Zhao, Fang ^a   Heiska, Leena ^a   Turunen, Ossi ^a   Den Bakker, Michael ^b   Zwarthoff, Ellen ^b   Lutchman, Mohini ^c   Rouleau, Guy A ^c   Jääskeläinen, Juha ^a   Vaheri, Antti ^a   Carpén, Olli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CD44; Cytoskeleton association; Ezrin; Merlin; Neurofibromatosis 2

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOCHALASIN B; EZRIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; MOESIN; RADIXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LYSATE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CHO CELL; CYTOSKELETON; GLIOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD44; CELL MEMBRANE; CHO CELLS; COS CELLS; CRICETINAE; CYTOCHALASIN B; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; DETERGENTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KIDNEY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEUROFIBROMIN 2; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RABBITS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030759923     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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