Stem-cell protein Piwil2 is widely expressed in tumors and inhibits apoptosis through activation of Stat3/Bcl-XL pathway

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 201-211

  Lee, Jae Ho ^a   Schütte, Dorothea ^a   Wulf, Gerald ^a   Füzesi, Laszlo ^a   Radzun, Heinz Joachim ^a   Schweyer, Stephan ^a   Engel, Wolfgang ^a   Nayernia, Karim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS INHIBITOR; CELL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN PIWIL2; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STAT3 PROTEIN; TUMOR ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SEMINOMA; STEM CELL; TESTIS CANCER;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-X PROTEIN; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEMINOMA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 31144460828     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi430     Document Type: Article

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