Expression of the Elm1 gene, a novel gene of the CCN (connective tissue growth factor, Cyr61/Cef10, and neuroblastoma overexpressed gene) family, suppresses in vivo tumor growth and metastasis of K-1735 murine melanoma cells

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 289-296

  Hashimoto, Yasunobu ^a,b   Shindo Okada, Nobuko ^a   Tani, Masachika ^a   Nagamachi, Yasuhiro ^a   Takeuchi, Kaori ^a   Shiroishi, Toshihiko ^c   Toma, Hiroshi ^b   Yokota, Jun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GROWTH FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 15; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GROWTH RATE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, VIRAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032472834     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.187.3.289     Document Type: Article

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