Revving the throttle on an oncogene: CDK8 takes the driver seat

Cancer Research

Volumn 69, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 7899-7901

  Firestein, Ron ^a,c   Hahn, William C ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 8; WNT PROTEIN;

COLON CANCER; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 8; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENES;

EID: 70350234735     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-1704     Document Type: Review

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