Snail/Slug family of repressors: Slowly going into the fast lane of development and cancer

Gene

Volumn 257, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-12

  Hemavathy, Kirugaval ^a   Ashraf, Shovon I ^a   Ip, Y Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinogenesis; Cell motility; Leukemia; Mesoderm; Slug; Snail; Transcriptional repression; Zinc finger proteins

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL MOTILITY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MESODERM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND VARIABILITY; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMAN; NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0034680368     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00371-1     Document Type: Review

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