TCF12 protein functions as transcriptional repressor of E-cadherin, and its overexpression is correlated with metastasis of colorectal cancer

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2798-2809

  Lee, Chun Chung ^a   Chen, Wei Shone ^b,c   Chen, Chia Chi ^a   Chen, Li Li ^a   Lin, Yi Shing ^d   Fan, Chi Shuan ^a   Huang, Tze Sing ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Welgene Biotech Co Ltd   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL LINES; CELL MIGRATION; CELL-CELL CONTACT; CELLULAR EXPRESSION; CELLULAR LEVELS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION ASSAY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONCOMITANT DECREASE; CONNEXIN 43; DOWN-REGULATION; E-CADHERIN EXPRESSION; E-CADHERINS; FIBRONECTIN EXPRESSION; GAP JUNCTIONS; LOVO CELLS; LOW LEVEL; MICROARRAY DATA; OVER-EXPRESSION; POLYCOMB; PROTEIN FUNCTIONS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSORS; TUMOR TISSUES;

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; DISEASES; PATHOLOGY; TUMORS;

GLYCOPROTEINS;

BMI1 PROTEIN; CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 43; FIBRONECTIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; TCF12 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL CONTACT; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOWN REGULATION; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CADHERINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84862909158     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.258947     Document Type: Article

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