MUC4 activates HER2 signalling and enhances the motility of human ovarian cancer cells

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 520-526

  Ponnusamy, M P ^a   Singh, A P ^a   Jain, M ^a   Chakraborty, S ^a   Moniaux, N ^a   Batra, S K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

HER2; Motility; MUC4; Ovarian cancer

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MUCIN 4; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL MOTILITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUCINS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 48349129798     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604517     Document Type: Article

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