Cadherin switching: Essential for behavioral but not morphological changes during an epithelium-to-mesenchyme transition

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 873-887

  Maeda, Masato ^a   Johnson, Keith R ^a,b,c   Wheelock, Margaret J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadherin; Epithelim to mesenchyme transition; Motility; TGF

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UVOMORULIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SURFACE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM; FOCAL ADHESION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MEMBRANE MODEL; MESENCHYME; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS FIBER; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DETERGENTS; DOWN-REGULATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MESODERM; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UP-REGULATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 16844379257     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01634     Document Type: Article

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