Cleavage of e-cadherin and-catenin by calpain affects wnt signaling and spheroid formation in suspension cultures of human pluripotent stem cells

Molecular and Cellular Proteomics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 990-1007

  Konze, Sarah A ^a   Van Diepen, Laura ^b   Schröder, Anke ^a   Olmer, Ruth ^c   Möller, Hanna ^a   Pich, Andreas ^a   Weimann, Robert ^a   Kuss, Andreas W ^b   Zweigerdt, Robert ^a   Buettner, Falk F R ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BETA CATENIN; CALPAIN; STABLE ISOTOPE; UVOMORULIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ADHESION; CELL CONTACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ISOTOPE LABELING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; SPHEROID CELL; SUSPENSION CELL CULTURE; TARGET CELL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CALPAIN; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; ISOTOPE LABELING; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84898731115     PISSN: 15359476     EISSN: 15359484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M113.033423     Document Type: Article

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