The zinc-finger protein slug causes desmosome dissociation, an initial and necessary step for growth factor-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1403-1419

  Savagner, Pierre ^a,b,c   Yamada, Kenneth M ^b   Thiery, Jean Paul ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SPREADING; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOSOME; DNA TRANSFECTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MESENCHYME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADHERINS; CELL MOVEMENT; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DESMOSOMES; DNA, ANTISENSE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPITHELIUM; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; KERATINS; MAMMALS; MESODERM; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VIDEO RECORDING; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0031005659     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.137.6.1403     Document Type: Article

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