hMSH6 deficiency and inactivation of the αE-catenin invasion-suppressor gene in HCT-8 colon cancer cells

Clinical and Experimental Metastasis

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 663-668

  Vermeulen, Stefan J ^a   Debruyne, Philip R ^a   Marra, Giancarlo ^b   Speleman, Frank P ^a   Boukamp, Petra ^c   Jiricny, Josef ^b   Cuthbert, Andrew P ^d   Newbold, Robert F ^d   Nollet, Friedel H ^e   Van Roy, Frans M ^e   Mareel, Marc M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

E catenin; Cancer; Colorectal; hMSH6; Invasion

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME 2; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ALLELES; ALPHA CATENIN; ANIMALS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; CELL FUSION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE SILENCING; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; MICE; PHENOTYPE; POLYPLOIDY; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033364572     PISSN: 02620898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006724300022     Document Type: Article

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