The adenomatous polyposis coli-associated exchange factors Asef and Asef2 are required for adenoma formation in ApcMin/+mice

EMBO Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1355-1362

  Kawasaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Tsuji, Shinnosuke ^a   Muroya, Ken ^a,b   Furukawa, Shiori ^a   Shibata, Yoko ^a   Okuno, Masumi ^a   Ohwada, Susumu ^b   Akiyama, Tetsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

APC; Asef; Invasion; Metalloproteinase; Tumour

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; GELATINASE B; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; PROTEIN ASEF; PROTEIN ASEF2; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE TUMOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, APC; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HCT116 CELLS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

MUS;

EID: 73849118693     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2009.233     Document Type: Article

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