Membrane-anchored plakoglobins have multiple mechanisms of action in Wnt signaling

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3151-3169

  Klymkowsky, Michael W ^a   Williams, Bart O ^b,c   Barish, Grant D ^b   Varmus, Harold E ^b   Vourgourakis, Yanni E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLAKOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032832285     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.10.3151     Document Type: Article

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