Polysialyltransferase: A new target in metastatic cancer

Current Cancer Drug Targets

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 925-939

  Falconer, R A ^a   Errington, R J ^b   Shnyder, S D ^a   Smith, P J ^b   Patterson, L H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Glycocalyx; Glycosylation; Metastasis; NCAM; Polysialic acid; Polysialyltransferase

Indexed keywords

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; POLYSIALIC ACID; SIALYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GLIOMA; GLYCOCALYX; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; METASTASIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; DRUG DESIGN; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLIOMA; GLYCOCALYX; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; NEUROBLASTOMA; PROGNOSIS; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SIALIC ACIDS; SIALYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 84867810388     PISSN: 15680096     EISSN: 18735576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156800912803251225     Document Type: Article

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