Deciphering tumor-suppressor signaling in flies: Genetic link between Scribble/Dlg/Lgl and the Hippo pathways

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 461-470

  Enomoto, Masato ^a   Igaki, Tatsushi ^a,b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell polarity; Dlg; Drosophila; Hippo pathway; Lgl; Scribble; Tumor progression; Tumor suppressor

Indexed keywords

RAS PROTEIN;

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL POLARITY; DLG GENE; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC LINKAGE; LGL GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SCRIBBLE GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, RAS; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 80054912552     PISSN: 16738527     EISSN: 18735533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2011.09.005     Document Type: Review

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