A SNAIL1-SMAD3/4 transcriptional repressor complex promotes TGF-β mediated epithelial-mesenchymal transition

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 943-950

  Vincent, Theresa ^a,f   Neve, Etienne P A ^a,b   Johnson, Jill R ^b   Kukalev, Alexander ^b   Rojo, Federico ^c,g   Albanell, Joan ^c   Pietras, Kristian ^b   Virtanen, Ismo ^d   Philipson, Lennart ^b   Leopold, Philip L ^e   Crystal, Ronald G ^f   de Herreros, Antonio Garcia ^c   Moustakas, Aristidis ^a   Pettersson, Ralf F ^a   Fuxe, Jonas ^b  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^f WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^g Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN 3; COXSACKIE VIRUS AND ADENOVIRUS RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; OCCLUDIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GROWTH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CADHERINS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 68249092353     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1905     Document Type: Article

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