Drosophila and mammalian models uncover a role for the myoblast fusion gene TANC1 in rhabdomyosarcoma

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 403-407

  Avirneni Vadlamudi, Usha ^a   Galindo, Kathleen A ^a   Endicott, Tiana R ^a   Paulson, Vera ^b   Cameron, Scott ^b   Galindo, Rene L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; DROSOPHILA; FUSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LETHALITY; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MOUSE; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SYNCYTIUM; TANC1 GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, INSECT; HUMANS; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOBLASTS, SKELETAL; ONCOGENE FUSION; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PAXILLIN; RATS; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA;

EID: 84855466017     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI59877     Document Type: Article

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