The transcriptional repressor ZEB1 promotes metastasis and loss of cell polarity in cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 537-544

  Spaderna, Simone ^a   Schmalhofer, Otto ^a   Wahlbuhl, Mandy ^b   Dimmler, Arno ^b   Bauer, Katja ^c   Sultan, Aneesa ^d   Hlubek, Falk ^e   Jung, Andreas ^e   Strand, Dennis ^f   Eger, Andreas ^d   Kirchner, Thomas ^e   Behrens, Jürgen ^c   Brabletz, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN LG12; PROTEIN ZEB1; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN BETA; LATE GESTATION LUNG 2 KARYOPHERIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZEB1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL LOSS; CELL POLARITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CARCINOMA; CELL STRAIN HCT116; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIVER TUMOR; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA KARYOPHERINS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CELL POLARITY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HCT116 CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 39049160267     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-5682     Document Type: Article

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