Liver tumors escape negative control of proliferation via PI3K/ Akt-mediated block of C/EBPα growth inhibitory activity

Genes and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 912-925

  Wang, Guo Li ^a   Iakova, Polina ^a   Wilde, Margie ^a   Awad, Samir ^a   Timchenko, Nikolai A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Akt; C EBP ; Cell proliferation; Hepatoma; Insulin

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 2; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE B; SERINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F;

ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; 3T3-L1 CELLS; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEIN-ALPHA; CELL DIVISION; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICE; MUTATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 1942466512     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1183304     Document Type: Article

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