The Drosophila Ste20 family kinase dMST functions as a tumor suppressor by restricting cell proliferation and promoting apoptosis

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2514-2519

  Jia, Jianhang ^a   Zhang, Wensheng ^a   Wang, Bing ^a   Trinko, Richard ^b   Jiang, Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; DMST; MST1; Sav; Tumor suppressor; Wts

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN E; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA; EYE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0142123293     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1134003     Document Type: Article

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