A genome-wide shRNA screen identifies GAS1 as a novel melanoma metastasis suppressor gene

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 2932-2940

  Gobeil, Stephane ^a   Zhu, Xiaochun ^a   Doillon, Charles J ^b   Green, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

GAS1; Melanoma; Metastasis suppressor gene; RNAi screen; Three dimensional cell culture system

Indexed keywords

SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENOME; GROWTH ARREST SPECIFIC 1 GENE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SAMPLE; SCREENING; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GENOME; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MELANOMA; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RNA, NEOPLASM; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 55749101028     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1714608     Document Type: Article

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