Translation initiation factor eIF-4A1 mRNA is consistently overexpressed in human melanoma cells in vitro

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 396-401

  Eberle, Jürgen ^a   Krasagakis, Konstantin ^a   Orfanos, Constantin E ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 2; INITIATION FACTOR 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEVUS; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4A; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030919560     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970502)71:3<396::AID-IJC16>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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