Mutations in β-tubulin map to domains involved in regulation of microtubule stability in epothilone-resistant cell lines

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-10

  He, Lifeng ^a   Yang, Chia Ping Huang ^a   Horwitz, Susan Band ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; EPOTHILONE DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL DIVISION; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; EPOTHILONES; HUMANS; MICROTUBULES; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUBULIN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0035523572     PISSN: 15357163     EISSN: 15388514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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