Nuclear export of the APC tumour suppressor controls β-catenin function in transcription

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1101-1113

  Rosin Arbesfeld, Rina ^a   Cliffe, Adam ^a   Brabletz, Thomas ^b   Bienz, Mariann ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

catenin; Adenomatous polyposis coli; Colorectal carcinomas; FLIP; Nuclear export

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BLEACHING; CELL LEVEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL TRANSPORT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI PROTEIN; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BINDING SITES; CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0037416148     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg105     Document Type: Article

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