The impact of the endoplasmic reticulum protein-folding environment on cancer development

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 581-597

  Wang, Miao ^a   Kaufman, Randal J ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 6; CALCIUM; EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 2ALPHA; INITIATION FACTOR; INOSITOL; INOSITOL REQUIRING PROTEIN 1ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; X BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1;

B CELL LYMPHOMA; BREAST CANCER; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CANCER CELL; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DEVELOPMENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GLIOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SECRETORY PATHWAY; SKIN CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; UTERUS CANCER;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE;

EID: 84906712846     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3800     Document Type: Review

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