EMT-Induced Stemness and Tumorigenicity Are Fueled by the EGFR/Ras Pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Voon, Dominic Chih Cheng ^a   Wang, Huajing ^a   Koo, Jason Kin Wai ^a   Chai, Juin Hsien ^a   Hor, Yit Teng ^a   Tan, Tuan Zea ^a   Chu, Yeh Shiu ^b   Mori, Seiichi ^c   Ito, Yoshiaki ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A2 PROTEIN; K RAS PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL STRAIN; CELL STRAIN GIF 14; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGFR GENE; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INDUCTION; HMGA2 GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LGR5 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS); RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 84881517035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070427     Document Type: Article

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