NH2-terminally truncated HER-2/neu protein: Relationship with shedding of the extracellular domain and with prognostic factors in breast cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 5123-5129

  Christianson, Tracy A ^a   Doherty, Joni K ^a   Lin, Yuzhong J ^a,b   Ramsey, Elizabeth E ^a   Holmes, Ron ^a   Keenan, Edward J ^a   Clinton, Gail M ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cascade Biologics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; ONCOGENE NEU; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BREAST TUMOR; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEMALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION;

DIPEPTIDE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; HYDROXAMIC ACID; METALLOPROTEINASE; N ((2 (HYDROXYAMINOCARBONYL)METHYL) 4 METHYLPENTANOYL) 3 (2' NAPHTHYL)ALANYLALANINE, 2 AMINOETHYLAMIDE; N-((2-(HYDROXYAMINOCARBONYL)METHYL)-4-METHYLPENTANOYL)-3-(2'-NAPHTHYL)ALANYLALANINE, 2-AMINOETHYLAMIDE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SCLEROPROTEIN; TUMOR PROTEIN;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIPEPTIDES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MICE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032532950     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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