SOX2 is a cancer-specific regulator of tumour initiating potential in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Siegle, Jasmin M ^a   Basin, Alice ^a   Sastre Perona, Ana ^a   Yonekubo, Yoshiya ^a   Brown, Jessie ^a   Sennett, Rachel ^b   Rendl, Michael ^b   Tsirigos, Aristotelis ^c   Carucci, John A ^a   Schober, Markus ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; BETA1 INTEGRIN; NRP1 PROTEIN; PITX1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TWIST1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; NEUROPILIN 1; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SOX2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX; VASCULOTROPIN A; VEGFA PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CANCER; CELL ORGANELLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; HOMEOSTASIS; TUMOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL EXPANSION; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIUM CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN EPITHELIUM; STROMA; TUMOUR INITIATING CELL; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; SKIN; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STEM CELL; STROMA CELL; TUMOR CELL LINE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; NEUROPILIN-1; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; STEM CELLS; STROMAL CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84905483930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5511     Document Type: Article

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