Functional coupling between the extracellular matrix and nuclear lamina by wnt signaling in progeria

Developmental Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 413-425

  Hernandez, Lidia ^a,b   Roux, Kyle J ^c   Wong, Esther Sook Miin ^d   Mounkes, Leslie C ^a   Mutalif, Rafidah ^d   Navasankari, Raju ^c,d   Rai, Bina ^d   Cool, Simon ^d   Jeong, Jae Wook ^e   Wang, Honghe ^a   Lee, Hyun Shik ^a,g   Kozlov, Serguei ^a   Grunert, Martin ^d   Keeble, Thomas ^d   Jones, C Michael ^d   Meta, Margarita D ^f   Young, Stephen G ^f   Daar, Ira O ^a   Burke, Brian ^c   Perantoni, Alan O ^a   Stewart, Colin L ^a,d   more..

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMIN A; LYMPHOID ENHANCER FACTOR 1; NOTCH RECEPTOR; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN 4; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURFACE; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE MUTATION; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; MOUSE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LAMINA; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGERIA; SKELETON MALFORMATION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; EMBRYOLOGY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNDROME; WESTERN BLOTTING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

MUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LAMIN TYPE A; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR LAMINA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROGERIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNDROME; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 77956607700     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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