Inhibition of cancer cell growth and c-Myc transcriptional activity by a c-Myc helix 1-type peptide fused to an internalization sequence

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3654-3659

  Giorello, Laura ^a   Clerico, Luana ^a   Pescarolo, Maria Pia ^a   Vikhanskaya, Faina ^a   Salmona, Mario ^c   Colella, Gennaro ^c   Bruno, Silvia ^a   Mancuso, Tommaso ^a,b   Bagnasco, Luca ^a   Russo, Patrizia ^a   Parodi, Silvio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c Molecular Pharmacology Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MYC PROTEIN; PEPTIDASE; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERNALIZATION; ONCOGENE C MYC; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTENNAPEDIA HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; APOPTOSIS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL ADHESION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, MYC; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR STEM CELL ASSAY;

EID: 17944392627     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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