Oncogenicity of the developmental transcription factor Sox9

Cancer Research

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1301-1315

  Matheu, Ander ^a,c   Collado, Manuel ^b   Wise, Clare ^a   Manterola, Lorea ^c   Cekaite, Lina ^e   Tye, Angela J ^a   Canamero, Marta ^b   Bujanda, Luis ^d   Schedl, Andreas ^g   Cheah, Kathryn S E ^f   Skotheim, Rolf I ^e   Lothe, Ragnhild A ^e   De Munain, Adolfo Loṕez ^c   Briscoe, James ^a   Serrano, Manuel ^b   Lovell Badge, Robin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme   (Spain)

^c BIODONOSTIA HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^g CENTRE DE BIOCHIMIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL AGING; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INK4A GENE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE; SOX9 GENE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84857700780     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-11-3660     Document Type: Article

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