β-Catenin-induced melanoma growth requires the downstream target Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1079-1087

  Widlund, Hans R ^a   Horstmann, Martin A ^a   Roydon Price, E ^a   Cui, Junqing ^b   Lessnick, Stephen L ^b   Wu, Min ^a   He, Xi ^b   Fisher, David E ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; Melanoma; MITF; Survival; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CELL PROTEIN; LEUCOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; T CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR GROWTH; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BETA CATENIN; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; LYMPHOID ENHANCER-BINDING FACTOR 1; MELANOMA; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037119948     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200202049     Document Type: Article

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