Tumor suppressor interactions with microtubules: Keeping cell polarity and cell division on track

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 3, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 304-315

  Hernandez, Paula ^a   Tirnauer, Jennifer S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; APC PROTEIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN; MERLIN; NEUROFIBROMIN; PROTEIN KINASE LKB1; PROTEIN P53; RAS ASSOCIATION DOMAIN FAMILY PROTEIN 1A; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; UVOMORULIN; VON HIPPEL LINDAU PROTEIN;

ANEUPLOIDY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOSKELETON; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZED CELL; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MESENCHYME CELL; METASTASIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; HUMANS; MICROTUBULES; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN BINDING; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 77952187795     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.004507     Document Type: Review

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