SYT-SSX1 and SYT-SSX2 interfere with repression of E-cadherin by snail and slug: A potential mechanism for aberrant mesenchymal to epithelial transition in human synovial sarcoma

Cancer Research

Volumn 66, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 6919-6927

  Saito, Tsuyoshi ^a,b   Nagai, Makoto ^a   Ladanyi, Marc ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SSX 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SSX 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SYT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CADHERINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SARCOMA, SYNOVIAL; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33746906998     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-3697     Document Type: Article

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