The complexity of thyroid transcription factor 1 with both pro- and anti-oncogenic activities

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 24992-25000

  Mu, David ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ACTIVITY; EXPRESSION PATTERNS; IMMUNOREACTIVITIES; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID TISSUE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR; TUMORIGENESIS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MICRORNA; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1;

AMPLICON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NK2 HOMEOBOX 1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE REGULATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LINEAGE; METASTASIS; MICRORNA; NKX2-1; TTF-1;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84883651787     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.R113.491647     Document Type: Review

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