Insulin-like growth factor 2 mRNA-binding proteins (IGF2BPs): Post-transcriptional drivers of cancer progression?

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 2657-2675

  Bell, Jessica L ^a   Wächter, Kristin ^a   Mühleck, Britta ^a   Pazaitis, Nikolaos ^a   Köhn, Marcel ^a   Lederer, Marcell ^a   Hüttelmaier, Stefan ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; CRD BP; IGF2BP; IMP; KOC; Migration; MYC; Proliferation; VICKZ

Indexed keywords

K RAS PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; MYC PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 2; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MELANOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TESTIS CANCER; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BETA CATENIN; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEOPLASMS; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84880313066     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-012-1186-z     Document Type: Review

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