The role of the ZEB family of transcription factors in development and disease

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 773-787

  Vandewalle, C ^a   Van Roy, F ^a   Berx, G ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cancer; Development; EMT; Invasion; Migration; Transcription; ZEB

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZEB 1 PROTEIN; ZEB 2 PROTEIN; ZEB PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; ZEB1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEVELOPMENT; DRUG MECHANISM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MENTAL RETARDATION MALFORMATION SYNDROME; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MOWAT WILSON SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; OVARY CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE COURSE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNDROME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 63049101157     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-008-8465-8     Document Type: Review

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