The tumour-suppressor genes NF2/Merlin and Expanded act through Hippo signalling to regulate cell proliferation and apoptosis

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-36

  Hamaratoglu, Fisun ^a,b   Willecke, Maria ^b,c   Kango Singh, Madhuri ^b   Nolo, Riitta ^b   Hyun, Eric ^a,b   Tao, Chunyao ^b   Jafar Nejad, Hamed ^a   Halder, Georg ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FERM DOMAIN PROTEIN; HIPPO PROTEIN; MERLIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DROSOPHILA; EXPANDED GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH REGULATION; MERLIN GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYCLIN E; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 30344445706     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1339     Document Type: Article

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