Small molecule-mediated disruption of Wnt-dependent signaling in tissue regeneration and cancer

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 100-107

  Chen, Baozhi ^a   Dodge, Michael E ^a   Tang, Wei ^a   Lu, Jianming ^b   Ma, Zhiqiang ^b   Fan, Chih Wei ^a   Wei, Shuguang ^b   Hao, Wayne ^b   Kilgore, Jessica ^b   Williams, Noelle S ^b   Roth, Michael G ^b   Amatruda, James F ^a   Chen, Chuo ^b   Lum, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; AXIN; BETA CATENIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; NEOPLASM; PORCUPINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TISSUE REGENERATION;

BETA CATENIN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEOPLASMS; REGENERATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 58249122326     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.137     Document Type: Article

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