Normal and cancer-related functions of the p160 steroid receptor co-activator (SRC) family

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 615-630

  Xu, Jianming ^a,b   Wu, Ray Chang ^a   O'Malley, Bert W ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 2; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN P160; PROTEIN P53; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; SMAD PROTEIN; STAT PROTEIN; STEROID RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 1; STEROID RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 3; SUMO PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F1;

ACETYLATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 2; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 69249110003     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2695     Document Type: Review

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