Isolation and characterization of the major form of human MUC18 cDNA gene and correlation of MUC18 over-expression in prostate cancer cell lines and tissues with malignant progression

Gene

Volumn 279, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 17-31

  Wu, Guang Jer ^a   Wu, Mei Whey H ^a   Wang, Shur Wern ^a   Liu, Zhong ^a   Qu, Pengpeng ^a   Peng, Qiong ^a   Yang, Hsiuchin ^a   Varma, Vijay A ^a   Sun, Qi Carrie ^a   Petros, John A ^a   Lim, So Dug ^a   Amin, Mahul B ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Human MUC18 cDNA sequence; Immunohistochemistry; mRNA and protein expression; Normal and malignant prostatic tissues; Prostate cancer cell lines

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER TISSUE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE ISOLATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUDE MOUSE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATIC INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD146; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0035861196     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00736-3     Document Type: Article

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