The human trithorax protein hASH2 functions as an oncoprotein

Cancer Research

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 749-758

  Lüscher Firzlaff, Juliane ^a   Gawlista, Isabella ^a   Vervoorts, Jörg ^a   Kapelle, Karsten ^a   Braunschweig, Till ^a   Walsemann, Gesa ^a,d   Rodgarkia Schamberger, Chantal ^b   Schuchlautz, Henning ^a   Dreschers, Stephan ^a   Kremmer, Elisabeth ^c   Lilischkis, Richard ^a,e   Cerni, Christa ^b   Wellmann, Axel ^a,f   Lüscher, Bernhard ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d PAREXEL INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^e BTF Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^f Pathologie Pathologisches Institut   (Germany)

^g RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; MESSENGER RNA; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSARCOMA; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, RAS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 38849117845     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-3158     Document Type: Article

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